Wouldn’t it be nice if…
- The EU adopted a Common Bookshop Policy & paid subsidies to independent bookshops, funded by corporation taxes collected from online booksellers.
- Independent bookshops were eligible for lottery funding to create reading corners & put on events for children.
- Book tokens were prescribed by the NHS to counter the over prescription of anti-biotics & tranqulisers.
- Every secondary school adopted a bookshop.
- There was an “e free Friday” campaign & no one bought books online the day before the weekend.
- Supermarkets could only sell books between 12.00 & 1.00 a.m. on Tuesdays.
- Authors who had ever sold a million copies refused to sell their books through online retailers & supermarkets.
- There was a five year moratorium on business rates for independent bookshops,
- Every paper book sold came with a code for the ebook download for an additional £0.99.
- The Net Book Agreement was reinstated.
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