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Originally Posted by HarryT
I can see both sides of the argument. On the one hand, I like cheap books from Amazon, but it's an undeniable fact that almost all small independent bookshops in the UK have gone out of business since the abolition of fixed-price books here in 1997.
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In New York, we're seeing a number of physical chain stores topple (as it were), but also the return of a few smaller bookstores. One of the only local businesses that survived the last two storms is a niche used bookstore that opened four years ago and has outlasted the drugstore and restaurant that used to do business beside it.
It specializes in art books and lit. I'd like to take that as a sign.
I don't really see the French government as meddling if the majority who voted for this incarnation
want those protections in place. On the nether hind, a band of twits shutting down a house of government over policies which the majority
did vote for and killing the flow of government services for everyone -- that I see as meddling.