Barnes & Noble takes penultimate step to exiting Queens
After twenty years, Barnes & Noble has officially closed their location in Forest Hills, Queens. Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska reports at DNAinfo: Patrons who came to visit the store in its final days said they… Read more »
Who’s behind Waterstone’s miraculous financial recovery?
The quick and easy answer is an increasingly common one: a Russian oligarch. Last month, we covered Waterstone’s surprisingly profitable turn in 2015, and have previously discussed the company’s restructuring under new… Read more »
UConn bookstore fights university’s call for chain to replace it
The University of Connecticut’s co-operative book store has put its dukes up after the university signaled that it’s considering replacing the venerable co-op with a privately run retailer. According to Shelf-Awareness, the… Read more »
In the city that spends the most on books, it’s only indies now
The American city that spends the most money on books, magazines, and newspapers—Washington, D.C.—will soon be left without any chain bookstores. Despite the recent revival of the brick-and-mortar bookshop (in London, and… Read more »
Can Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga save B&N?
Last week, the Wall Street Journal’s Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg reported on a new Barnes & Noble television commercial created by B&N chairman Leonard Riggio, starring Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett.… Read more »
‘Go Set A Watchman’ breaks sales records, probably makes Dan Brown cry
On Tuesday, amid controversy and excitement, Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchman was released to the world. From bookshops to grocery stores in mid-Missouri, it seems that Watchman is available pretty much everywhere.It turns… Read more »
Barnes & Noble creates a new college bookstore business, B&N Education
The college bookstore business is still going strong, and Barnes & Noble has found a way to improve its stock by emphasizing its textbooks. In an announcement yesterday, the company said… Read more »
Gaudeamus igitur, Amazon’s going to college
When I was a college student, I thought as a college student. I spake as a college student, using the term “Derridean” and “albeit” like they were my sponsors. I… Read more »
The darkest timeline: Powell’s Books, a wholly owned subsidiary of Amazon
Oregon had two new stories to celebrate today. The non-cannabis one is in an unassuming piece in the Willamette Week that describes the moment when indie bookselling almost signed its own death… Read more »
B&N hopes a Samsung tablet will be less terrible than the old Nook
The Nook has been a sinking ship for some time, but Barnes and Noble is looking to Samsung for a life raft. Hoping to revitalize the ebook division, B&N will… Read more »