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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
But if something isn't on the shelves at all, you can't buy it..
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This is true and Coke and Pepsi give free coolers to stores that promise to only stock their products. But there are few stores that only stock one or the other.
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
It might be the case that the publishing industry as a whole could be better off if they could limit the number of authors, I don't know. A monopoly could do this, but with multiple companies, if any one of them limited the number of authors, that would simply mean a smaller share of the pie.
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That is my opinion.
I have lived in towns that no books are sold(2011), and towns with only one little small rack of books. The little small racks do carry several publishers in my experience but they probably come from one distributer.