I was out talking to some traders last week and in connection with local book shops of how tough it can be to compete with the giant corporates.
Amazon and especially Kindle has really sucked up the market.
I my self have two Kindle's one for UK and the other for US books.
All of which means I buy fewer 'paper' books, journals, newspapers and magazines.
So returning to the local bookshop in Primrose Hill. I was talking about this conundrum. Whereupon, I came up with an idea. About Amazon offering local exclusive offers to the small book resellers to promote new books in parallel with paper book of same title and buy in the shop the Kindle edition by purchasing a special token card.
The Kindle price for the book could be similar to Amazon direct and a small percentage worked to be resale margin to the local shop.
With my consultancy company I will take my ideas and develop more fully to take Amazon and Apple.
Image (c) Amazon Kindle
