Jay Lansdown is the Owner of Constant Reader Bookshop and Constant Reader Kids in Crows Nest on the Lower North Shore of Sydney.

He started work with a 15-year career in Sales and Business Development, initially with Qantas and finishing in Hong Kong with Flight Centre Limited.

Returning to Australia Jay took a 6-month break and worked in a bookshop. Two years after re-entering the corporate world (in Legal publishing) he took the opportunity to return to bookselling managing the Constant Reader before buying the business in 2012. Constant Reader continues to run a broad Author event program include ‘Writers at Stanton’ Sydney’s oldest continuously running series of Author talks.

He sat on the board of the Australian Booksellers Association/Book People from 2014 to 2023 and was president from 2019 to 2021.

He continues to run the Constant Reader, however, due to awesome staff, that doesn’t amount to doing much.