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Originally Posted by DAHayden
Smart, and true. For a while, midlist books are going to be racing through the bookstores, in and off the shelves. Only really popular titles will remain for long. But I don't think the industry can sustain that for long. Eventually bookstores will be small with mostly bestsellers and a few books that publishers are trying in the hopes to make bestsellers.
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No bookseller can survive on best sellers... the supermarkets reduce price levels of the best sellers to less than an independent can buy (in small quantities) from the publisher... independent booksellers only stand a chance by carving out a niche market of their own... genre specialisation for instance combined with genuine customer service...