[kiisupai]

On a related subject, Quartz just ran an article on how membership at the American Booksellers Association has "gone up every year for the past four years, from 1,401 in 2009 to 1,567 in 2012".

http://qz.com/127861/its-time-to-kill-the-idea-that-amazon-i...

Amazon seems to be killing its medium-sized competitors more than its smaller ones. But the article does not touch on the subject of publishers.

[InclinedPlane]

Plenty of small bookstores use amazon, by putting their inventory online as "used books". I'd be curious how much revenue from amazon actually supports small bookstores these days.