On delivery, sometimes impossible but not always. We booksellers (can’t believe I’m writing that!) know that it is just impossible to compete with Amazon. Yes, yes, I know what you mean, but that’s not the point.ĭanny Caine, author of How To Resist Amazon and Why, is a Kansas bookseller, and he was so concerned at what Amazon is doing, not only to independent booksellers but ultimately to authors by devaluing their creativity, that he wrote a book about it. I told someone this the other day and they said: ‘Well, why don’t you buy them from Amazon then and stock them in the shop?’ I’ll let you into a little bookselling secret, there are some books on Amazon at certain times of the year that cost you less to buy than they do us from wholesalers or publishers. In short, Amazon makes it so easy for us, and it is understandable that we have found the lure of that little orange logo so impossible to resist.īut is it any wonder now that our high streets are dead, that shop units are empty, that only a fool would go into retail now? (ahem) We have all contributed to this because convenience and bargains have trumped community and conversation. But you don’t need me to tell you this, you only have to walk into your town centre to see for yourself. You see, the high street is dying, no, forgive me, it’s dead. I had forgotten that I had ordered this, but it felt an important book to stock in my shop.
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