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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by oarsinsync on Thursday April 04, 2019 @07:21AM (#19570910)
> "We're a small independent ebook retailer"

> How does that work?

Small: They're not operating at Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Amazon, or any other major book retailer level. Measuring by revenue seems reasonable in this sense. Pick arbitrary numbers to define small/medium/large.

Independent: They're not affiliated with any one single publisher.

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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by benj111 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @09:17AM (#19571905)
Yes, I possess a dictionary too :P

Independent suggests more than just being independent, and very little of that seems to be compatible with being an internet company (local, passionate knowledgeable owner, community hub).

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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by oarsinsync on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:22AM (#19572604)
I think I may have been wrong regarding independent. Given the context of the thread, it sounds more like platform-independent, rather than publisher-independent. The previous comments are about platform-specific stores.
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Re:When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear... by benj111 on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:54AM (#19573021)
Do you think I'm reading too much into the word then?

If some one told me about a small independent record store, or small independent coffee shop, I would have certain expectations.

Platform independent seems reasonable given the context though.

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