Sentences with phrase «way big box bookstores»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.»

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.