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Independent Booksellers Upset at NPR Over Amazon Link

PW reports today that NPR has released its summer reading list on its website - and linked to Amazon for purchasing titles. This has independent booksellers in an uproar, as many of them sponsor NPR programs:

"It?s a huge issue," said Susan Novotny, owner of Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, N.Y., "because many of us underwrite our local NPR stations. And it isn?t cheap, anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 a year." Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson?s Bookstore in Concord, N.H., agreed. He said that because NPR is the best radio platform for his store, he?s spent $20,000 over the last five years. For NPR to funnel book sales to Amazon, he said, "makes us come across looking like chumps while Amazon rakes it in."

It appears, however, that NPR isn't going to change the link, regarding it as a convenience for its visitors rather than an actual endorsement of Amazon.
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