For 25 to 30 years Graham Jones was a sales rep for a small UK music distributor. By 2009 the number of independent record shops in Britain had fallen from around 2,200 to 269, and he set out to visit fifty of them around the country to find out why. The book tells the decline and its causes from the point of view of someone who served those shops every week. It is useful context for anyone using The Grail Hunt: UK & Ireland: it explains why so few of those shops are left and why they are worth the trip.
A presentation, not a review: we haven't read this book yet.
