A new page
for small booksellers Harry
W. Schwartz store closings
a result of changing marketplace
By DANIEL KURT & KEVIN PASSON - GM Today Staff
January 20, 2009
OCONOMOWOC - It’s not often that a
business owner is sad when a competitor goes out of business, but
that’s exactly the case with Lisa Baudoin, the owner of Books
& Company in Oconomowoc.
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For Baudoin, the announcement that Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops
would close its doors for good at the end of March, was just that -
sad. She doesn’t see Schwartz or other independent bookstores as
competition the way she considers Amazon.com to be.
"I don’t know if it’s the economy as much as it is the
playing field," she said. "It’s Amazon, discount stores,
the availability that makes it a challenge (to operate an
independent bookstore)."
