The thing that is frustrating is that B&N and Borders annihilated all the small stores, then Borders goes bankrupt and B&N reduces its stock to a few pop books and heaps of toys and a huge expanse of empty pseudo-Apple-store for Nook. Together the two have succeeded in squeezing distribution to a Hollywood style winner-take-all system, cutting off the long (and short) tail.
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