Utilize one
of the big bookstore chains.
Not exact matches
It would be a much better story if this
bookstore was one
of those
big chain stores, you...
After drawing a lot
of attention back when it was first announced by Viz Media, volumes one and two
of Pokemon Black & White have hit comic store shelves (they were in most
big chain bookstores a couple weeks back).
It seems safe to say the
biggest factor
of these Tokyopop cuts, past Stu Levy's often fickle - seeming management style, is the recent bankruptcy
of the American
bookstore chain, Borders.
In the 1990s the «
Big and Nasty»
chains like Barnes and Noble, Borders, and Books - a-Million — with their sweetheart deals with the
Big 6 Publishers — put 1000s
of indie
bookstores out
of business.
Self published authors have to rely on their own resources, be more creative in finding retail shelf space for their books (as a rule, self published authors have far less access to
chain bookstore shelves than the
big publishers who spend millions on marketing dollars), and have to work very hard to create any sort
of buzz about their books.
Since February 2014, Tamblyn and Aiki have led Rakuten Kobo through some significant advances: Rakuten's acquisition
of OverDrive; the launch
of Kobo's digital reading service in Mexico with two
of the country's
biggest bookstore chains, Librerias Porrúa and Gandhi; and the acquisition
of the customers from Sony's eBook business and from the UK eReading service BlinkBox.
I think we will always have brick - and - mortar
bookstores in some form or fashion, but it's clear that the heyday
of the
big - box
chain bookstore is just about over.
With the rise
of online book selling and
of ebooks, large, traditional publishing houses and
big chain bookstores have been struggling to survive.
The
big bookstore chains are wedded to the idea
of big stores with huge, long - term leases.
However, just as the music industry managed to destroy itself fighting the advance
of new technology, I'm really concerned that the
big bookstore chains and publishers are going to fight this model.
At the time, I heard about a
bookstore owner complaining that he had to close his doors because
of the
Big Chains.
The other missing pieces are
bookstores and libraries, but I doubt much good news will be coming from either sector; the
big bookstore chains are stumbling badly this year, and my local stores have cut back on their graphic novel inventory, while libraries, like all branches
of local government, must contend with budget cuts.
In the United States, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest
bookstore chain, took a much
bigger gamble by investing heavily in the creation
of its own e - reader / tablet.
Teleread reports on the fact that REDgroup Retail, owner
of 3
big bookstore chains (Borders Australia, Angus & Robertson Australia, Whitcoulls New Zealand), has been placed into voluntary administration.
2
of the 3, Eisler and Brockway, had already had the
big publisher, had already seen their books on the shelves
of everything from Walmart to grocery stores to the
big chain or little indie
bookstores.
There were already more established ereaders, offered by more well - known companies, when they entered the market, and they had no
big retailer support, whereas in many
of the international markets where they've gained a substantial following they were partnered with a major
bookstore chain and arrived before the Kindle was available.
So you get that concentration
of power in a relatively small number
of big publishers and
bookstore chains.
VB: It used to be that writers were discouraged from doing a «small book» in the middle
of a career
of bigger books, because the
chain bookstores — the brick and mortar stores — kept close track
of sales, and low sales would hurt the prospects for a writer's future books.
What's dramatic about this
biggest of all US
bookstore chains in what may be near - extremis is,
of course, what that death could mean to so many in the industry (not least the jobs lost) and to those who enjoy and depend on physical
bookstores.
And while some
of its peers in the
big - box space, such as Office Depot, can experiment with smaller stores because their customers come in looking for specific products that can be ordered through the
chains» websites, a
bookstore is too much about the experience
of exploring new products in person for that to be a successful strategy for Barnes & Noble, notes Montgomery.