At 08:24 PM 3/5/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't know what books you were looking at, but any book to do with
>the Sprite or Midget came up as hard to find, out of stock or unavailable.
>Most of these books are available through MiniMania and Moss, etc.
>
>Places like Amazon drive small businesses out of business. Once the small
>speciality shops are driven out by the Walmarts and Amazons you won't be
>able to find anything even slightly off the beaten track if the Mega
>corporations decide they don't want to stock it and we'll all be driving
>Escorts and Camrys.
>
>I'd rather pay a few extra bucks to a small business owner and support
>that sort of American spirit of enterprise than to save a few bucks at
>Walmart or Amazon.com. I have connections in the publishing world and
>they tell me that what they can bring to market and sell is very much
>subject to the approval and censorship of these corporations.
>
>That my .02
>
>Robert Weeks
>Durham NC
>1969 Midget
>http://www.woozy.com/midget/
>
Agreed. sorta
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