Well actually, removing B&N would allow small locally-owned bookstores to once again exist and thrive, offering better service and prices to customers and investing more back into the community. You should welcome their demise.
> removing B&N would allow small locally-owned bookstores to once again exist and thrive <
There were quite a few locally-owned bookstores in my neck of the woods before B&N came along. And they were - without exception - weird leftist book stores. I couldn’t get a commentary on the Gospels in any of them. But I could get ten different books written by Chairman Mao.
Yes, my local B&N carries books by the great murderer Mao. But it also carries Christian commentaries.
Just my two cents. If you live in a rural area, I’m betting your locally-owned bookstores weren’t quite as crazy.