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Will Your Favorite Indie Book Store Survive or Be Swallowed Whole?new

More than a decade deep into Amazon, Borders and Barnes & Noble's ravenous gangbang of all things mom-and-pop, local bookstores are now staring down the barrel of Depression 2.0.
Philadelphia City Paper  |  Jakob Dorof  |  03-24-2009  |  Books

Independent Bookshops Chain to Close After 82 Yearsnew

Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, one of the largest and oldest independent chains in Wisconsin, survived the Great Depression but wasn't able to overcome titanic changes in the retail sector, exacerbated by the current economic crisis.
Shepherd Express  |  Evan Rytlewski  |  01-23-2009  |  Books

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