Bookstores, particularly independent bookstores, help resist this trend by championing authors the employees believe in.
Two independent bookstores, side by side, owned by the same folks in Silicon Valley.
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These factors put significant pressure on local independent bookstores because they typically sold fewer books at higher prices.
Basically my experience was that independent bookstores rarely if ever wanted to acknowledge that there were also independent publishers.
Chains and independent bookstores might have carried a few titles, but they were hidden away, and inventory was scarce.
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Independent bookstores, squeezed by competition from Internet retailers like Amazon, have long done something their online brethren cannot emulate: author events.
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As was widely predicted, the ending of the Net Book Agreement in 1995 hastened the end of many small, independent bookstores.
In the first month of the Kobo partnership (Oct. last year), independent bookstores sold more ebooks than in the entire two years working with Google.
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"It's going to live in the mystery section, " says Camden Avery, a book buyer for The Booksmith and Kepler's Books, two independent bookstores in the Bay Area.
The shifting distribution patterns for books mean publishers now need strategies to make local independent bookstores sustainable and to help restore local booksellers where they no longer exist.
Once upon a time, publishers had relatively small lists of new authors whose books they distributed to independent bookstores and small-format mall chains like Waldenbooks and B Dalton.
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The reason the program existed in the first place was to give independent bookstores a way to get involved in the growing market of ebooks and digital reading, to give them a chance to survive the ebook revolution.
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When I was growing up, the kind of people who today are lamenting the decline of physical books in the face of e-reading were busy bemoaning the decline of independent bookstores in the face of ruthless national chains.
What was left when I left were the big-box bookstores and one remarkably savvy, if not altogether likable, independent that long ago started a similar buy-the-book-for-tickets policy.
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