Waterstones teams up with Amazon Kindle for Digital Reading

Amazing. From an interview James Daunt gave to John Walsh in the Independent which appeared on 5 December 2011:

‘Daunt makes no bones about his dislike of Amazon. “They never struck me as being a sort of business in the consumer’s interest. They’re a ruthless, money-making devil.”’

Only yesterday Robert McCrum’s column included this quote from Daunt on ereader strategy:

“We’ll be different from Amazon,” he says, with characteristic ebullience, “and we’ll be better.”

And this morning, this:

Afternoon update: more information now available in The Bookseller following an interview with Daunt.

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