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Via bkerr, two links about the plight of Shaman Drum, a small but long-lived bookstore in Ann Arbor:

Open letter from a Distressed Bookseller

Jim Carty, Destroyer of Local Businesses?

I find the debate fascinating. I only have two things to add to the discussion: 1) my textbook buying experience at Shaman Drum was miserable, but not exceptionally so; 2) I wonder whether this is less a case of capitalism’s “creative destruction” than it is a case of a small business that relied too heavily on a single revenue stream.