Amazon is putting B&N out of business, just like it did Borders. Creative destruction at work.
Amazon surely contributed, but didn’t Borders have some super aggressive expansion campaign that failed leaving them leverage far beyond what their dwindling sales could ever cover?
When my husband lost his job, I got a job at B&N. Nice enough work place but they turned it into a damned toy store. That’s all we sold. The bookshelves disappeared to be replaced by Frozen dolls.
I just ordered college texts from BN College store online. Frustrating process to order books and checkout. In fact I was not sure if my order completed (no confirmation) so I ordered on AMZ. Books arrived in 2 days from AMZ. Three weeks later BN books arrive ! Shocked!