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Originally Posted by Barty
Remember when people lamented B&N would kill all the independent book shops? I think that was the premise of that rom com You've Got Mail. Now Amazon is killing B&N. There's always a bigger fish.
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There's no doubt that large chain bookstores do kill independents. Waterstones (the dominant bookstore chain in the UK) killed the majority of independent bookstores here, because the independents were unable to compete with Waterstones' prices.