... this particular case, but from my many years of bookselling experience I can say that these legal problems usually turn out to be dull stuff involving copyright issues, rather than juicy but potentialy libellous stories as one might hope.

and it was on sale. Nearly bought it, it looks like an interesting read.

Certainly were selling it on Record Store Day.

Keefy owner of this wonderful shop is rightly rather proud that his emporium is worthy of a couple of pages in Last Shop Standing so he has a copy in pride of place in the window as well as a photocopy of the reference to the shop to alert passers by.

Apparently he's a bit critical of various record shops who went out of business & I can only presume someone has took exception to this. I work in retail & sometimes you do choose to ignore the old "legal reasons" chestnut & sell regardless which we did in the case of many a 2manydjs compilation. Cue various weary reminders from head office along the lines of "stores are reminded that they are not to sell blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzz".

In short got one for £11 off ebay

that they're planning to re-print it, minus the "issues" (whatever they were). Interestingly, it's published by Proper, who are also a CD distributor.

the cheeky monkey

I was fortunate enough to buy a copy I am not surprised that there has been some legal trouble. The book is an excellent read, though is extremely honest and revealing,though I can understand why somebody in the music industry is trying to get it stopped as it reveals lots of stories on chart hyping and corruption. Steve is correct when he says 'Not only are independent record stores disappearing but we now can't even read about them.It will be a pity if this book does'nt come out again.I would reccomend you track one down quick

Ben B

in the HMV at Westfield. Or there were on Monday, at least.