This could pose a serious problem for
traditional booksellers like Barnes & Noble as these generations grow up, especially if the younger generation uses the Internet as a source of reading material rather than books.
The company is due to report its quarterly earnings this week, and all eyes will be on how well its digital and device strategies are holding up, in the wake of people reading less paper books and general problems that have befallen other
traditional booksellers like Borders.
Not exact matches
I wanted to clue - in my non-writer friends and followers to an epic soap opera -
like battle between
bookseller Amazon and publisher Hachette Book Group, one of the Big 5 remaining
traditional publishers.
I find it ironic that a company as young as Amazon helping bibliophiles while a
traditional oldline
bookseller like BN didn't and now its failing to catch up.
Under the
traditional pricing model, publishers charged
booksellers something
like half the cover price of a book, and allowed the
booksellers to discount the books to whatever price they wanted.
You may be able to sell a self - published book to a local or independent
bookseller, but if you'd
like to make it to Barnes and Nobles or Books - A-Million, you'll have better luck going with a
traditional publisher.
Authors who wanted to artificially inflate their book's popularity could buy satisfied reader reviews, circumventing the tedious business of building relationships with readers, librarians and
booksellers like those squares in
traditional publishing insist you must.