Dare ObasanjoDec 29, 2022

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

What Can We Learn from Barnes & Noble's Surprising Turnaround?

Digital platforms are struggling, meanwhile a 136-year-old book retailer is growing again. But why?

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@carnage4life I love mathematical textbooks. Not NYT bestsellers.

It’s something ‘Independent Bookstores (TM)’ cannot normally address.

(So I often glaze over at the usual social media haranguing.)

B&N at least used to be one of the places I would go to look for the book or put in a special order. (Borders was the other.)

Dec 29, 2022 at 5:44amWeb