I hate being turned into a commodity and seeing things turned into commodities. I like bookstores too, but I don't like chainstores and I don't like distributors. We already have twelve people in the US who buy all the books for the twelve major distributors. They're the information filters and their criterion is the bottom line and the bottom line is a fraud. I don't like megapublishers either.
Publishing is owned by far too few people.
They're the people who own the means of production and worse yet they own the means of attention. They determine what we get to pay attention to. Of course there are other ways of delimiting people's attention. Like aesthetic and cultural means of limiting attention. Librarians used to be very big on this.