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Independent bookstore vs. Amazon: Two views: Part 2
Walking into Big Sleep Books at 239 N. Euclid is like entering a time warp, so asking proprietor Ed King what affect Amazon has had on his sales is essentially a non-starter. Big Sleep doesn't maintain much of a webpage, and what they have is rarely updated. There is no evidence of a computer system…
The independent bookstore vs. Amazon: Two views, Part 1
The idea for this post had its origins in an opinion piece written by author Ann Patchett on the Author's Guild website. Patchett, author of books such as Bel Canto and State of Wonder, co-owns Parnassus Books in Nashville, TN. In the piece she lamented the fact that President Obama bypassed the bookstore when he visited the Amazon facility in Chattanooga, two…