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An online buyers' market that might help small retailers.(From The Editor)

At this week's Home Entertainment Retail Expo in Baltimore, yet another new online venture will be introduced. But for a change, this is one that could help, not threaten, the smaller home entertainment retailer.

The indieBuyer.net concept (and it's just a concept at this point, since a beta site is not expected until later this fall) has promise, at least on paper. As you can read in this week's issue, this is, essentially, an online buying group with some very interesting twists.

The key ingredient in this model is that participating retailers in indieBuyer place their order for a title prior to prebook date, and the eventual unit price for the title is set based on ...

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