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Originally Posted by murraypaul
10 small book shops won't have the same selection as one book shop 10 times the size.
Abolishing fixed book prices may have taken away small physical bookshops, but it also enabled Amazon and other super-large online bookshops. The number of different titles available is much higher now than then.
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Amazon would have done just as well with fixed price books as they did with discounted ones. It wasn't price that attracted readers to them, it was the fact that they had, or could get within a few days, any book you wanted. Even the very large book shops only ever had a limited selection.