The future for bookselling on the UK’s High Streets?

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.