Featured Newsletter : Tied Up With String
December 2010
Enough Already?
I bought a second hand book in Oamaru a week ago. After I paid for it, the shopkeeper wrapped it in brown paper, tied it with string and stamped it with the firm’s name and logo.
On one level this was a deeply twee event. The setting was the historic whitestone quarter of Oamaru where people walk about dressed in Victorian costumes and “steampunks” bury their heads in dangerous and complex machines.
Behind the bookshop counter which looked impressively old and quaint, there was actually a computer and EFT-POS terminal tastefully hidden away.