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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly. If Waterstones are the only game in town, with no competition, there's no incentive for them to keep prices low, is there?
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I understand that local bookstores have suffered/gone out of business. But is the subsequent rise in prices something that has actually been seen, or just a feared consequence that is believed to be coming?
I'd like to see some kind of empirical evidence: "In industry X, once WalMart/Amazon/Buy 'n' Large took over the industry, and the local B&Ms folded, prices rose by Y%".