Aw, I guess Obamugabe will have to find another place to do a book signing.
Posted on 01/28/2013 11:51:11 AM PST by jimbo123
Barnes & Noble will shut up to a third of its brick-and-mortar bookstores over the next decade as reading habits change and digital publications evolve, according to a new report.
The chain will end up with 450 to 500 stores in 10 years, down from the 689 physical stores it has now, according to Mitchell Klipper, chief executive of Barnes & Noble's retail group.
That evens out to about 20 stores shuttered yearly over the period, Klipper said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
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I don’t like my reading to be dependent on something that requires a power supply.
I hope you're kidding. I don't think B&N (and Border's before it, and every other bookstore and bookstore chain) is having trouble competing with the public library. Public libraries have existed throughout the entirety of B&N's existence, and B&N was flourishing until Amazon (and the Kindle) came along and was able to undercut B&N on price. Blaming B&N's troubles on the public library is absurd.
It’s a commie store so who cares? Everytime I go into ours the Beck books are behind the Lib books. The people that work there are all left wing nut jobs. Let ‘em close.
I remember from 2 or 3 years back that Barnes and Noble was investing in “ON-Demand” book printing. They were going to maintain a massive digital library of books and whenever someone wanted a hard copy, they would just use their print and bind machine to make a single copy. A typical 300 or 400 page book would take about 5 minutes to be printed and bound and would sell for about $15.
What happened to this technology?
It seemed great.
I used to think that as well, but since I got the Kindle app on my smart phone I'm finding I prefer reading books on my phone. I read a lot and it's a lot easier to carry around a smart phone than a book. Also allows me to easily read a bit when I have short breaks in my working day.
“I prefer old fashioned book”
I agree. I’ve got a kindle. I am pretty happy with it - it is great for travel, and if I can find the kindle it is easy to find the books. Also, there is so much great stuff in the public domain now, so free downloads.
That said, there is nothing like an honest, for real old book - hard cover with heavy stock paper. And I will NEVER lose the rush of entering a used book store and getting that wonderful musk of old paper, glue and leather.
But I do enjoy my kindle. It augments books, but does not replace them.
Barnes and Noble are going to close a third of their stores? I hope the other 50% will be OK.
Aw, I guess Obamugabe will have to find another place to do a book signing.
$9.70 plus tax plus my gasoline plus my time so I can wait in line to have a fat, surly, underemployed Obama voting lib put it in a bag for me?
I walked out, and ordered the book from Amazon.
I'm amazed that they only expect one third of the brick and mortar stores to close.
I prefer books too. I have an Ipad but I don’t use it for books. I did try one once, but it just doesn’t work for me. By the way, if you have friends that are readers, I don’t think you can trade ebooks. That really bothers me because we do trade books. Maybe some can but I haven’t found a way to do it. I do try to buy most of my books at the bookstore because I want to support them. A bookstore is a great community.
Perhaps I should have said the published author would work as a screen instead of an editor, to at least cull the bulk of the crapola.
I used to enjoy the ‘writings from the slush pile’ that was published in the old National Lampoon magazine. Though he did it anonymously, I recognized the collection as coming from Ben Bova, when he was editing Analog.
Yes, crowdsourcing the slush pile could work (my understanding is most books can be rejected based on their first page). That said, I’m not sure it would do anything to actually help B&N. Amazon has various ways of trying to milk the “want to be author” crowd for their own benefit, like Amazon’s Kindle Digital program. Getting your book on the store shelf is great and would be an attractor over using Amazon. But I’m not really sure there’s that many really great books that aren’t getting attention from publishers. Publishing a book has a lot of costs (the paper and ink are among the least of them) and B&N doesn’t really have any of the infrastructure in place to do so.
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A lot of unemployed liberals. Sniff.
I can see people trying to absorb the Bible on an electronic reader Kindle or otherwise. It won’t happen, not in depth. Plus you cannot annotate pages. Reading words on paper is much better than any electronic screen. Too bad the younger generations will not know the difference
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