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Booksellers Indigo Books and Music and Books-a-Million join Barnes & Noble in refusing to sell Amazon-published books ? but Amazon may be looking into opening their own retail stores.Get Business Mobile Text Alerts R.J. Julia Booksellers, one of Connecticut's best known independent bookstores, is for sale, owner Roxanne Coady announced Monday.Publishers and booksellers are looking for new ways to compete with the Goliath of online retailers. Just before Christmas, Amazon infuriated booksellers with an app that allowed customers to check out prices in brick and mortar stores and then get a discount if they bought from Amazon instead."In Nicolas Sarkozy's second crisis-budget plan, which raised taxes to try to plug the deficit, he raised VAT on books from 5.5% to 7%. ... Booksellers' unions are up in arms against the measure, which comes into force in April ...The owner of R.J. Julia Booksellers, a well-known independent bookstore in downtown Madison, revealed in a message to customers this morning that she's seeking a buyer for the business."This is not an end for R.J. Julia, but simply a new beginning," Roxanne Coady wrote.Roxanne Coady, long-time owner of R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, has announced she is planning to sell the store to a qualified buyer who will carry on the store?s mission. She emphasizes that the store will not be closing.Two booksellers arrested for selling the autobiography of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have been released on free bail.What accounts for an upsurge in confidence among independent booksellers? In part, it's because of an increase in sales in many of these stores within the last quarter.Last week's best-selling books at Barnes Noble Booksellers at Jefferson Pointe:Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, 2960 Center Valley Parkway, Center Valley, 610-791-3261: Friends Discussing Fiction Group, "Water for Elephants" by Sarah Gruen, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.Booksellers - Yahoo! News Search Results
