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First, Borders Books went bankrupt and now the best bookstore ever, Barnes & Noble, which has been around since 1886, will close down by year-end, forcing the few remaining educated book readers left in the world to buy online. WTF? Some people like to peruse the books first before buying. You can’t do that online. Plus, browsing through Barnes’ thousands of books on the floor is fun, especially at Christmas when they lay out all kinds of fun books that make great presents. What a great loss for those who still read. Disgusting. Everything fucking sucks anymore!
From the article, here are the five (5) reasons for the death of Barnes & Noble (see Wiki for details on this fabulous company):
So why is B&N on the ropes if it has virtually no competition today from chains or privately owned bookstores?
Five reasons.
- First, Amazon makes it so easy to buy books.
- Second, publishers thrashed B&N by selling best-sellers at deep discounts in non-traditional outlets such as supermarkets, Wal-Mart and Costco, thus removing a key source of revenue for the chain.
- Third, the woefully underfunded Nook is competing with Amazon’s Kindle, which is like bringing a knife to a gunfight.
- Fourth, the antiquated model of printing books on spec, putting them on trucks, and crossing your fingers that they’ll sell doesn’t work in the internet print-on-demand era.
- And fifth, book buyers want decent customer service. At B&N these days, the only way to find a sales clerk is to attempt to shoplift.
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