Further: the Amazon 'CreateSpace' self-publishing contract is apparently non-exclusive. If any traditional publisher wanted to offer an edition of this book –

Further: the Amazon 'CreateSpace' self-publishing contract is apparently non-exclusive. If any traditional publisher wanted to offer an edition of this book – which is now award-nominated! – they could make the author an offer. These bookshops thus have a sort of 'Stockholm Syndrome', identifying with the traditional publishers on whom they have become overly-dependent, and whose disinterest in this apparently-meritorious book has created the problem for the bookshops.