: Why India’s bookshops can thrive despite online giants only if publishers support them #IndiaNEWS Independent bookstores have often found themselves in the news and most stories revolve around their

Why India’s bookshops can thrive despite online giants only if publishers support them #IndiaNEWS
Independent bookstores have often found themselves in the news and most stories revolve around their battles to stay afloat. In the good old days, it was the chain bookstore that was the villain of the piece. The adversary changed with the entry of Flipkart first and then Amazon, as the indies found it more and more difficult to challenge the deep discounts that the big bad online wolves offered. There is now a third enemy that indie bookstore owners are training their guns on – the makers of the books that they are selling. Many independent booksellers feel that their lot would have been much better had the publishers “engaged�? more with them than with the Amazons of the world. So, why are bookstores implying that the publishers are not supporting them? And how do publishers view this allegation?Them vs usWhen booksellers say that publishers engage more with Amazon or Flipkart, they mean that a publisher’s first port of call for selling is Amazon or Flipkart. Many publishers’ websites have the Amazon or Flipkart button alongside the books – sometimes both. Leonard Fernandes, co-founder of Dogears Bookshop in Margao, Goa, said, “We are not asking for indie booksellers to be listed on the...Read more

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