Competition in Westhampton Beach between two independent bookstores, a long-established one and a new entrant, is the topic of an article in the The New York Times:
"There's no legal or ethical principle that says you don't open a second store of some kind because someone else has the first one," said James Kramon, a longtime summer resident here.
The ethics of it are certainly something that have been debated for a long time; there's a summary of the Jewish religious law about it up here. (Readers may also wonder if James Kramon is any relation to Times editor Glenn Kramon.)