£45,000 Grand! For a book …
By now, bookworms up and down the land will be eagerly getting to grips with their summer read.
As the pace slows and we settle into a gentler rhythm of the summer holidays, there are few things as reassuring as a good book.
Whilst audiobooks enjoy double-digit year-on-year growth, printed books still enjoy a special place in our affections.
Enjoying at our own pace, gently drifting away on the pictures we paint in our mind.
More avid readers may even have packed more than one.
However many we choose to take, they are a very personal choice, so no bragging rights about getting stuck into Dostoevsky (never have and never will) and never a mad dash to find something semi-interesting at the airport bookshop, either.
It’s all about the delicious pleasure of choosing a great read well ahead of our summer escape.
For me, it’s the second thing that gets packed alongside a rather excellent bottle of one of Scotland’s finest malt whiskies.
Yes, books really are that special.
Perhaps even more so to the Harry Potter enthusiast who recently paid £45,000 at auction for a first edition copy of the Philosopher’s Stone. But that’s another story.
They say there’s a book in all of us, but very few have the discipline and staying power to sit down and get to grips with our magnum opus (*).
But if you do, and you’re struggling to know where to start, why not drop us a line.
Self-published books are a big part of what we do.
Until next week.
Alec