Finally, A Man With Some Sense.

Maud Newton conducts an interview with Dave Weich, the director of marketing and development at Powell's Books. I expected a high-up at an Oregon-based independent bookseller to be of the hippy, granola-crunching, Literature-must-be-saved-from-the-vulgar-commercial-masses, business-is-evil, bookstore-chains-suck, The-Man-is-keeping-us-down type, but he *gasp* actually seems to have a good head on his shoulders. He even wryly dismisses those who say and publishing and/or bookselling is doomed. My kind of man.