HP 7 may be absent from small shops

Telegraph.co.uk reports:

A quarter of independent booksellers say that they will not stock the final Harry Potter book when it is published because they claim they cannot make a profit on it.

The survey, for The Bookseller magazine, found that the country’s dwindling number of small bookshops said they could not match the discounted prices on the Harry Potter titles offered by online outlets such as Amazon or big chains and supermarkets.

Some even claim they will have to buy the book from supermarkets because they will be cheaper than their usual suppliers.
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Charles Hampton of Boarderman’s bookshop in Bishop’s Stortford said: “We made a loss on the last one and I am not prepared to make a loss on this one.”

He claimed that some outlets were able to sell Harry Potter books for £3 less than he was able to buy them for.

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