"Indie bookstores fight chains, Internet"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061008/ap_on_bi_ge/independent_bookstores

>>Adam Brent knew his 11-year-run selling best sellers and new releases was
over when mail carriers started walking into his building to deliver books
from Amazon.com to the tenants upstairs

"Literally, they didn't walk downstairs or take the time to make a phone
call," Brent said of the neighbors of Brent Books & Cards in the city's
business district.<<