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July 23, 2007
A publisher writes
Tim,
I retired from Pan Macmillan in March and live in Basingstoke. On my retirement I joined the library and indeed visited it yesterday after catching up with Richard Charkin's blog.
The display, as alluded to one of your posts, is appalling. The new books section is abysmal with a very poor to non existent selection.
It is in my own interest you challenge these comments/proposals re fiction buying. Therefore, I happy to do what ever you suggest to provide some resistance.
Posted by Tim Coates at July 23, 2007 3:45 PM
Comments
Ray
Many thanks. The library in Basingstoke is operated by Hampshire County Council. If you - and as many friends as you can muster- were to write to the Leader of the Council, Ken Thornber, in Winchester, with copies to both Yinnon Ezra, head of leisure services and Richard Ward, Head of the Library and Information service and also to your local county councillor, your local paper and the Hampshire Chronicle in Winchester, with your views, then they could hardly ignore your experience, I feel.
Pan Macmillan pay substantial business rates to the county council and one would have thought there could usefully be the opportunity for some partnership of the kind which Hampshire so frequently mention on their road signs.
Tim
Posted by: Tim Coates at July 23, 2007 4:04 PM