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The sale of B&N again calls the question of the future of America’s bookstores

June 17, 2019 by Mike Shatzkin Leave a Comment

The most important question in the world of trade publishing is “what will happen to the book trade”, meaning, primarily, the bookstores (but also the other retailers that sell books, the libraries and the wholesalers that supply them). That was the topic of a panel called “The Power of Retail” at BEA in New York […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, Industry Events, New Models, Supply-Chain, Uncategorized Tagged With: ABAn, Amazon, American Booksellers Association, Barnes & Noble, Dennis Abboud, Elliott Management, James Daunt, Madeline McIntosh, Oren Teicher, Penguin Random House, ReaderLink, Tim Mantel, Waterstone's

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