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Originally Posted by rcentros
I lived in several cities and towns growing up. Almost all of them had healthy, local bookstores which competed fine with the mall stores, PickWick, B. Dalton's, Waldenbooks, etc. When B&N came to town, they almost all went out of business within a year or two -- as did the smaller mall bookstores. So it really doesn't matter to me if B&N was particularly "predatory" or not, the end result is that they ran out the smaller bookstores. Hence, I don't feel that sorry for them if they refuse to compete with Amazon. And I don't really consider Amazon particularly "predatory" either -- they just want to sell their books.
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Same story here.
My favorite local bookstore coexisted with the mall chains for decades.
They went under in less than a year after the warehouses came to town.
Was it B&N's fault? Borders?
Or maybe it was the publishers' fault for supporting the system of volume based discounts that lets consumers buy books cheaper at B&N (and Amazon) than the indies can buy them from their distributor.
I've even heard of some indies fullfiling special orders by buying through Amazon prime. (Shhh!)
Cheaper and way faster delivery.