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Will Harry Potter Kill Small Booksellers?

abcnews.go.com — Small mom-and-pop bookstores say they can't make the price-cuts to compete with large booksellers. "It could be the largest book to make money, but places like Amazon are selling them 40 percent off," said Tom Holbrook, who runs a small shop called RiverRun Bookstore in Portsmouth, N.H. "You can't compete with them on price, so we don't discount."

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  • shadow9939, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It's not the new Mom & Pop stores on the web that suffer. It is the bookstores that are not massive chains that have been around for years that cannot compete with the megastores on price discounts. For good or ill, the boutique bookstores are going the way of the dodo.
  • Tangaroa, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So THAT's the secret at the end of the Harry Potter series: Harry becomes a mass murderer and goes on a killing rampage against small bookstore owners.

    ... Hey, I only read the headlines on Digg. Isn't that how you use the site?
  • DrIce926, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I honestly don't even care...it's the way of the web.

    Make with the times, mom n pop noobs. *shrug*

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