Publishers Weekly’s Judith Rosen reports on booksellers’ despair about how NPR sells books. Josie Leavitt, co-owner of Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne, Vermont, was not happy when NPR released its summer reading list. She had advised other members of the New England Independent Booksellers Association listserv to print out the list, because she had three customers in one day ask about books on it. Rosen quotes Leavitt saying, “I was aghast when I noticed that the Buy This Book link goes right to Amazon.com and no one else.” “It’s a huge issue,” said Susan Novotny, owner of Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, New York, “because many of us underwrite our local NPR stations. And it isn’t cheap, anywhere from $5,000 to $12,000 a year.” Michael Herrmann, owner of Gibson’s Bookstore in Concord, New Hampshire, has spent $20,000 over the last five years because “NPR is the best radio platform” for his store. For NPR to funnel book sales to Amazon, he said, “makes us come across looking like chumps while Amazon rakes it in.”