Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00043)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Please consider that once places like Barnes & Nobles and Amazon 
put 
> the independent bookstores out of business, they will control the 
> publishing industry, as well? They have already put many smaller 
> publishers out of business by demanding discounts so deep that the 
> publishers can't afford it, and putting independent bookstores out 
of 
> business by predatory and often illegal competition (for example, 
> arranging with publishers to NOT release new books to independent 
> bookstores until B&N has had them for at least a month).


Business is business.

The US economy is being systematically dismantled and shipped 
overseas anyway. May it soon be put out of its misery. There is no 
reason for small publishers to remain in business.