A huge focus of James Daunt’s keynote speech to the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) was how Barnes and Noble is bouncing back from the retail apocalypse. It also included a lot about mundane changes like new furniture to major overhauls of how books are even shelved! One big change is that stores can now […]
Sandy and I had a fun trip to Barnes and Noble today, where we mostly browsed through the sales aisle.
Is Barnes and Noble doomed to Borders’ fate? Borders’ liquidation this summer should have been Barnes & Noble’s grand opportunity to grab a sizable market share, just as the warehouse book-selling superstores benefited in the past when they ruthlessly forced countless smaller and independent bookstores to board up and call it quits. But something isn’t […]