Tag: bookstores
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Sales of Print Books Increased Slightly in 2017
Time and time again, many have been proclaiming the death of print books but the latest statistics on the sales number for the year of 2017 says otherwise. According to Publisher’s Weekly, print book sales have risen 1.8% in 2017 compared to the sales numbers from 2016. Further proving that print is long from dead,…
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Barnes & Noble wants smaller stores
While dealing with the same number of closures of their stores as Amazon is opening more and more bookstores, Barnes & Noble has come up with a new tactic: scaling down. Instead of continuing to deal with their massive stores that are mostly empty, the idea is that the new, smaller stores will be more…
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Amazon Bookstores are not Making Money
News of Amazon’s physical bookstores created shockwaves through the book and publishing industries; from the first whispers of the ideas to the actual ribbon cutting of the locations, just the thought of them has sent ripples to all of Amazon’s competitors. Aside from just existing however, the brick and mortar stores haven’t actually justified the…
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Barnes & Noble no longer in the technology business
In news shocking no one who’s been paying attention in the book industry, Barnes & Noble has finally announced that they are no longer in the tech game and trying to compete with Amazon and Google. Rather, they are making the decision to focus on their flagging physical stores rather than focusing on their flagging eReaders. Barnes…