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David Walters wrote: Now Amazon is doing to B&N what B&N did to Dalton (smaller book chains) and the independents. I suppose others such as bookfinders.com and abebooks.com, by offering rarer books, are doing the same thing. **Bookfinder.com was bought out by Abebooks long ago, and Abebooks was in turn purchased by Amazon many years ago now. When this happened thousands of independently-minded booksellers left the Amazon/Abebooks behemoth, and some of us set up our own online, multi-dealer sites. One such site is the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers' Association); another is www.tomFolio.com, the world's only international co-op of used booksellers. Regardless of whether this sort of massive centralization of Amazon should be a model for the future in some socialist utopia, it is no exaggeration to say that Amazon puts thousands of booksellers out of business every year. Today. Now. It is also increasingly clear to me that the independent online alternatives which have sprung up are getting little or no book buyer support their way. While we are desperately trying various things to bring in people to our sites, it seems that when people are hooked on something, there's no turning back. Richard Menec ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
