Red Széll

Most authors don't earn very much money.

And these platforms are charging an enormous amount of money for not really giving a particularly Rolls-Royce service.

It's a usable service.

I give them that.

But, you know, they're not...

There is so much on Audible that you are just assaulted by the choice.

And it's very, very difficult to pick out a book, as you might have done off a shelf or, you know, from a carefully curated table of books in a bookshop.

All I can say is that we all need to just go out and buy as many physical copies of books as

for friends and family as gifts as possible, because that's what keeps the authors going.

And that's what spreads the word about great books.

These platforms, the way that they are behaving is rapacious and unnecessary and punishing people who really do not earn a huge amount of money anyway.

I've come across them, yeah.

I mean, I must say actually hearing Alina talk, she's a wise woman and it just shows that actually...

As one of my daughter's teachers said, all reading is good reading.

It doesn't matter what you read.

You're still using your brain.

And I think...

We need to remember that books like Jane Austen's novels and Anne Radcliffe's novels were originally written off as, oh, they're just fluffy romance.

They're not literature.

They're now looked at as some of the best literature in the English canon.