We can get special orders fast and are flexible enough to work with you and to do our best to have what you want when you need it. Your shopping with us enables us to be that kind of store. The central buyers for large chains and the internet superstores order such large quantities that they receive price breaks simply not within the reach of independent stores. It is independent booksellers, making their own local decisions about what to carry, who introduce those authors and publishers to the public. That is why losing independent bookstores is dangerous to America.
Independent booksellers are essential to the development of a freethinking society.
Fresh thinking, which keeps us healthy, often comes from the edges of the mainstream, requiring smaller publishers and independent booksellers to circulate such thinking. Larger entities may be too invested in the mainstream to welcome potential change. Similar marketplace forces have already resulted in the disappearance of neighborhood hardware stores and other friendly, locally-owned retail stores. Independent booksellers like Logos do not have an inherent right to exist simply by being independent. We must earn our customers business by providing the best selection, service, atmosphere and price we possibly can.