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Article: Are chains stcking the shelves against traditional booksellers?(includes related article on City Lights bookstore, San Francisco, CA)(Industry Overview)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 24, 1997
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Was the murder of Arch Dolan, the owner of an independent bookstore in Coral Gables, Fla., a random act of violence? Or did it have something to do with his attempts to derail the opening of a superstore across the street from his shop? After all, it was no secret that the superstore, operated by the Megamedia book chain, would have put him out of business.
While poor Dolan is a fictional creation, the growing power of book chains across the country is a real phenomenon. If the rivalry between superstores and independents depicted by Lee Standiford in his forthcoming novel, Deal on Ice (originally titled Book Deal), hasn't led to murder in real life, it has ...