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A new look for a new book

March 9, 2012, 5 Comments

Welcome to the new world of Swiss Watching! To celebrate the arrival of the German edition, my blog and website have been combined and re-designed.

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Should the price of books be fixed?

February 15, 2012, 12 Comments

Cartels, fixed prices, less competition, consumer loses out. It may sound like something from the Seventies

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A double celebration for Swiss Watching

December 9, 2011, 10 Comments

Two years old today. This blog, that is, not me. And with perfect timing the first translation of the book has been finished

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Discovering Swiss cheese with Style

November 8, 2011, 6 Comments

Swiss and cheese. Those two words together conjure up an instant image of giant slabs of rubbery stuff with holes in. 

  • A Number 1 bestseller
    December 5, 2010, 8 Comments

    How does it feel to have written a bestseller? A customer asked me that last week, but it’s a question I found quite hard to answer.

  • The day I sold my baby for the first time
    May 22, 2010, 2 Comments

    How does it feel to sell your baby to strangers? Anyone overhearing that question from a colleague yesterday must have thought we were having the strangest conversation. What the casual ...

  • From first line to last word
    February 5, 2010, No comments

    Two years ago I went to Geneva for my first writers’ conference for two days of workshops, brainstorming, networking and chatting. In one of those workshops I wrote down a ...