No Real Surprise… B&T at one point in time was the main distributor to bookstores. Maybe the largest book distributor at times. It was founded in the 1800s, actually. Over the last fifty years it morphed into different forms and with different corporate owners too stupid to detail out here. And parts of the company were sold off. (Always a good plan.) When indie publishing with Amazon fired up, “extended distribution” went to B&T and for a time all indie books had a special code that basically kept bookstores from buying indie books. Can I say “shortsighted on B&T’s part. But at that point their main customers were the big…