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Barnes & Noble vs. Independent Booksellers: A look at the closing down of independent booksellers as Barnes & Noble takes over Manhattan and Shakespeare & Co. shutters its doors in response

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Barnes & Noble vs. Independent Booksellers: A look at the closing down of independent booksellers as Barnes & Noble takes over Manhattan and Shakespeare & Co. shutters its doors in response

Penned By Mandy Stadtmiller
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This book is no longer available.The real threat to independents comes from the stacks of best-sellers heaped in the front of every superstore. While publishers are willing to pay any bookstore for favorable placement, in practice the money goes overwhelmingly to chains. Each book in prominently positioned dump-bins can net a chain $120,000 a year, according to a New York Times article earlier this year. In Barnes & Noble’s case, publishers can shell our another $150,000 for inclusion in the “Discover Great New Writers” series, which includes front-window placement in all superstores for two or thee months and a review of the book in the chain’s in-house journal. The program purports to offer an introduction to the “best books being published [sic] this summer” and “some of the finest writers on todays’ lterary [sic] scene.”

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After spending years working in the corporate world, Mandy Stadtmiller finally decided to pursue a lifelong passion for writing. They currently reside in a quiet suburb where they spend most of their time outlining new stories, reading extensively, and occasionally attempting to bake.

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