Large bookstore chains started to rule the inner cities and
small book stores started dying since they lost their bread - and - butter business.
In addition to protecting the book as a cultural good, it is also meant to
protect smaller book stores from being outcompeted by large chains offering big discounts.
Coming at it from the other end if the Big Publishers are so outraged at Amazon's pricing and the way it
effects small book stores (which they keep trumpeting in the press) why do they keep giving Amazon the best discounts?
I know a lot
of small books stores and libraries welcome authors to speak there and some even hold showcases to display local authors.
There was
a small book store in a beach town that I always visited when at the beach, and I absolutely loved this store.
Use every source you possibly can to promote your book of fiction, including the media, online web sites and
small book stores that welcome an author's presence at book signings.
The same way that
the small book store on the corner has been put out of business by the big book sellers, the market has shifted again.