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‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Is There a Need for Independent Bookshops?
There's a split there with Amazon, right? Amazon is this centralized, extremely efficient distribution funnel. If you were to start Barnes and Noble over again, would you need the retail endpoints? Or would you build the sort of efficient distribution chain that is allowing not only in this moment, your retail endpoints to exist, but also independent bookshop?" You need physical bookshops to have proper discovery," he says.
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