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Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on Slate that independent bookstores are killing literacy.

I just emailed this post to every single person who works at my company.

towirr:

[The price indie bookstores charge for books] is not a markup. We charge what the publishers ask for the books. We simply can’t strongarm the publishers into giving us better discounts like B&N or discount every title deeply enough that we lose money on all of them in an effort to cut out our competitors, an effort alleviated somewhat by the money we make selling goddamned refrigerators out back. 

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