Cutting out the middlemen.
Amber Communications Group, Inc., of Phoenix, Arizona, reached an agreement to become the first African American book publisher to sell its titles directly to the Barnes & Noble Bookstore chain. The publisher's imprints include Amber, Busta, Colossus Colossus - (A huge and ancient statue on the Greek island of Rhodes).
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