Bookstores Drop Suit Against Chains

Yahoo is reporting The
independent bookstores have
dropped their antitrust lawsuit against book giants
Barnes &Noble and Borders in exchange for $4.7
million.


Both sides claim they won.

“Fizzle. Fizzle. Fizzle,\’\’ said Stephanie Oda,
who publishes
Subtext, a Connecticut newsletter covering the
bookselling
industry. “Business is not fair. This is a capitalistic
system.\’\’