I think it’s awful that brick and mortar books stores and hard copy book industry is suffering.
B&N attracts libs, so what? I never have trouble finding what I need in there and they are always helpful in ordering.
B&N, along with the now departed Borders, had a business model that deliberately targeted small mom and pop bookstores and magazine shops for destruction.
Market economy at work, right? Fair enough; while I’ll lament the loss of any bricks and mortar bookstore, with B&N it comes with a generous share of snarkiness involving thoughts of poetic justice.