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Barnes and Noble faces a challenge that has not been clearly spelled out

August 23, 2016 by Mike Shatzkin 28 Comments

The sudden dismissal of Ron Boire, the CEO of Barnes & Noble, follows the latest financial reporting from Barnes & Noble and has inspired yet another round of analysis about their future. When the financial results were released last month, there was a certain amount of celebrating over the fact that store closings are down […]

Filed Under: General Trade Publishing, New Models, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, Borders, Brentano's, Cambridge University Press, Dalton, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Gimbels, Heather Reisman, Indigo, Kroch's & Brentano's, Leonard Shatzkin, Marshall Field, Penguin Random House, Pocket Shops, Publishers Lunch, Steve Clark, Walden, Wanamakers

Technology, curation, and why the era of big bookstores is coming to an end

June 7, 2011 by Mike Shatzkin 22 Comments

I stumbled across a Sarah Weinman post from a few months ago that posits the notion that the chain bookstore (by which it would appear she means the superstores of the past 20 years, not the chain bookstores in malls that grew up in the prior 20 years) perhaps had a natural life cycle which […]

Filed Under: Autobiographical, General Trade Publishing, Publishing, Publishing History, Supply-Chain Tagged With: Amazon.com, Avon, B. Dalton, Baker & Taylor, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Bill Shinker, Bookstop, Borders, Brentano's, Burrows Brothers, Cambridge University Press, Crowell-Collier, Crown Books, curation, Doubleday, Doubleday Merchandising Plan, Iacocca, Ingram, Jack Romanos, Kroch's & Brentano's, Len Shatzkin, Peter Mayer, Rosemary Rogers, Sarah Weinman, Steve Clark, The People's Pharmacy, Walden

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