What is the biggest threat to reading in today's culture? Price-cutting Amazon, or ghost-written celebrities? Library closures, or dwindling literacy?
None of these, according to literary super-agent Jonny Geller. The answer is Netflix.
"It's addictive," he says, "and it's good." People are now as likely to gobble up box sets as thrillers. And so authors (like me) and agents (like him) must adapt to survive. He, at least, seems to be doing that rather successfully.