How long will barnes and noble be around

Well, kindle is not enough, even the DXG or oasis. Proer reading would defnite want A4 like Ereaders. Yes, Sony provide that type of product since Thin, super-light, big. As for Tencent, they have a very successful platform called Wechat.

If you were in China, you can finish everything via the Wechat only Chating, caring, washing your car, deliverying, ordering, paying for your lunch and so on. From last year, they started a mini program called Wechat Reading. Nowadays, this platform is not big enough but they have over Millions users, a great portion of those people do pay for books Totally different from that China in stereotype 10years ago. BN Premium member would really enjoy to read their Professional books on the best E-ink readers.

Amazon cannot easily follow as they ate just product centric, full of low-end customers have thin margin. Lastly,BN may create a somewhat special service. Like 24hrs carrel area Just like carrels in Van Pelt. I have to say there are not few people prefer to work or study,write in night. However, as far as I concerned, no libraries really open 24hrs. They can have a try and trying to do some cross selling to help with their profit and finally rise again.

Many bookstores in Asia once fall due to online reading crashing but finally fight back. Opportunities are always exist ,we should take actions to achieve something great.

Anyway, Knowledge for action. Or why waste your time to learn. If this comment offend anyone, hopefully you may comprehend. Due to my superficial knowlegde as an average undergrad. Have a nice day. However, Daunt used some tough tactics, the kind publishers complain about with Amazon, to salvage Waterstones. Gone will be the grand plans and corporate double-speak of the current regime, replaced instead by someone whose message will be simple, to the point, sometimes bruising, but effective.

On Sept. Daunt says that if you give booksellers the autonomy to choose and display and curate their stores rather than making decisions on a corporate level , those booksellers will make sure the books that customers want to buy are in front of them. That is the happy outcome that should reconcile publishers to this [new model]. Co-op is the practice of publishers paying for title placement throughout the chain.

Furthermore, because of this local-first strategy, a number of longtime buyers for the chain headquartered in New York City have been let go. Daunt has been in bookselling for 30 years, but he is not precious about it, which is something of a rarity for the occupation. Nov 11, , am EST. Nov 10, , pm EST. Nov 10, , am EST. Edit Story. Feb 9, , pm EST.

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