OTHE SIDE OF THE DESK
REACHING OUT TENTACLES
As Jeff Bezos hightails it from Amazon, Piers Blofeld ponders on what its next phase holds for independent authors
Piers Blofeld
Some years ago I wrote a series of anonymous blog posts for The Bookseller, the esteemed organ of the book trade. The articles were intended to raise various issues in the business with a frankness I could not achieve under my own name – the disruption of tech, the challenge that Amazon posed and the rise of the self-published author. Spoiler alert: a few people got cross but no one much cared, especially not the tech giants.