ExperienceNow the question is whether Mr Daunt can repeat the experience across the Atlantic. “You want to enjoy yourself, to bring your kids and have fun buying a book,” says Mr Daunt. “It all seemed terminal,” says John Makinson, former chief executive of Penguin, the British publisher. Digital disruption has turned out to be “more benign than many pessimists thought”, says Anthony Forbes-Watson, chief executive of London-based Pan Macmillan. You can’t drift off and be writing poetry in your head,” Mr Daunt says.

Source: The Irish Times June 11, 2019 15:33 UTC