Sentences with phrase «of big box bookstores»

But, as I said many times in the months leading up to Borders» dissolution, a large part of the problem was the influx of the big box bookstores.

Nor should they forget that the real problems for small bookstores came with the influx of the big box bookstores like B&N.

You don't find them talking about how the influx of the big box bookstores destroyed the locally owned bookstores or how the poor business management and over-expansion of the big box stores then caused their own downfall.

They were already dying as a result of the big box bookstores moving into their communities, stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders.

It also fails to take into account the fact that indie bookstores, where some of those less than best seller books could be found, were run out of the market by the influx of the big box bookstores in the 1980s and 1990s.

Once Amazon has been slain, the literary golden age of big box bookstores can return.

Not exact matches

Perhaps traditional grocery stores will be forced to confront the challenge posed by big box stores and delivery companies like FreshDirect by playing up the community aspect of the shopping experience — just as some of the most successful bookstores have become more like coffee shops and community centers in order to stay in business.

Michael Tamblyn — CEO of Kobo told me on a few occasions that they focus on bookstores because their product seems more organic and wholesome, instead of being sold at a big box retailer, where technology is often cold and impersonal.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

When you're playing that kind of game, the Big Five publishers have a huge advantage — their sales teams pitch books for placement at bookstore accounts, big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so Big Five publishers have a huge advantage — their sales teams pitch books for placement at bookstore accounts, big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so big - box stores, specialty retailers, and so on.

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.

Howey pointed out that Amazon has actually helped indie bookstores by putting big box stores like Borders out of business.

In an era of e-readers and instant book downloading, many independent bookstores are already suffering; even the big - box stores like Borders are making headlines as they try to stay afloat in a market of paperless literature.

Not too long ago there was serious speculation that Barnes & Noble might follow Borders and other big - box bookstores into the dust bin of history.

They forgot about how the big box stores moved into the market in the 1980s and 1990s and drove most of the smaller, locally owned bookstores out of business.

Price fixing, in this case, not only preserved the publishers» ability to inflate the retail price of physical books, it helped independent book stores preserve the high retail price they need to compete with Amazon, Wamart and big box bookstores.

They are moving into small storefronts — sort of like what they did before they were driven out of business by the big box bookstores like BN and Borders.

People still want books - they still want to buy them from bookstores - many people are tired of big box and in part because of borders jerking readers around for so long.

At one point, there were at least a dozen big box bookstores within 20 miles of my house.

It completely ignores the fact that most of the mom and pop bookstores in this country went the way of the dodo when the big box stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders entered the market.

Amazon doesn't have to try to put the «big box bookstores» out of business, it's a natual progression.

As for increasing profits, until indie authors have a larger section of the print market or we see the end of the current big box purchasing contracts, there is very little an author can do to increase a bookstore's profits.

«It's easy to forget, in the age of monolithic publishing houses and ubiquitous big - box retailers, that the bookstore - as - publisher tradition goes way back — as pointed out in a recent Salon article, Shakespeare & Company published Ulysses, and City Lights published Howl.»

Their customers include libraries (school libraries, university libraries, public libraries, professional and technical libraries, special libraries, etc.), and other institutions, and they distribute to book retailers of all stripes, from wholesale clubs to big - box stores and specialty shops to independent bookstores and online retailers.

I've said the big box bookstores are going to have to re-examine their business models and find ways to think outside the box or they will go the way of Borders.

Oh, wait, B&N and the other big box bookstores (most of whom are no longer in existence) put the majority of the indie stores out of business.

There's definitely the potential of losing big - box bookstores in the very near future.

Indie bookstores are always on the lookout for new revenue sources and something that will differentiate them from the big - box stores, most of which still don't carry indie titles.

This was the time period where both Borders and B&N (B.Dalton) started to aggressively add big box stores while the number of mall - based bookstores was shrinking.

«The good news is that even though Apple, Netflix, Amazon, eBay, and other online giants killed record stores and video rental shops and are in the process of doing the same to electronics and bookstore big boxes, e-commerce will never replace the brick - and - mortar shopping experience,» says Sean Glickman, CCIM, managing director of Glickman Retail Group in Maitland, Fla..

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.