Online price war has mixed impact on local booksellers
Terry Lucas is not thrilled that a price war between Amazon.com and Wal-Mart's online store has become so fierce that some bestselling books were almost 75 percent off their list prices at the end of the week.
She owns The Open Book, an independent bookstore in Westhampton Beach, and worries that the casualties in such a war won't be either of the combatants, but people like her.
"I...