Albuquerque Independent Business Alliance

A dispute over pricing has led to Amazon making books published by Macmillan unavailable for sale on its website. In a world of huge,conglomerated book publishers and sellers, readers and authors are the causalities of such clashes of the titans. This is a wakeup call for people to turn back to their local, independent book sellers. Despite the rumors, they are not extinct, though they are endangered. Albuquerque is lucky to have more than one. Page One and Bookworks spring to mind.