Under that 1981 law, books in the country were sold at a fixed price, which was meant to protect
small booksellers from the ravages of big box discount stores and retail chains that were already cropping up even then.
Not exact matches
In sum, he writes, «a
small bookseller with great physical footprint and footfall but not much by way of a digital track record might just, strangely, be a leader in this shift
from print to digital in Ireland.»
If any key people
from D Publishing / Dymocks are reading this, I have nothing against Dymocks (or publishers or
booksellers, big or
small).
The biggest threat to
small booksellers in France comes
from Amazon.
As a
bookseller, I can only comment on the availability of books
from small and vanity press publishers.
Yes, Amazon does take business away
from the
smaller booksellers.
In an English language market that could easily be technologically serviced
from the UK or US (as Amazon does with Kindle) so long as the retailer made a
small commitment on the ground marketing and brand building and converting print readers to digital, a
small bookseller with great physical footprint and footfall but not much by way of a digital track record might just, strangely, be a leader in this shift
from print to digital in Ireland.
The
bookseller is planning to release a
smaller edition of the Nook Tablet this week, if a leaked memo
from Walmart is to be believed.
What kind of market is it where a
small independent
bookseller goes down to Sainsbury's and loads up his shopping cart because he can buy the books more cheaply
from Sainsbury's than he can
from the publisher?
The data was gathered
from the major trade publishers, and those
smaller presses with books in The
Bookseller's Top 50 of 2012, including Hesperus Press.
[7][8] These indie stores and
small chains have been feeling competitive pressure
from the larger chains, internet - based
booksellers, and digital media.
The
small bookstores accused the two national chains of illegally using their size to demand discounts
from publishers, a move they said undermined independent
booksellers» ability to compete.