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Barnes and Nobel is another franchised retail store(s) that focuses on paperback "mass market" books. That is the business model that may be most impacted by the eReaders. Hardback and soft cover "Trade" books may survive, but cheap paperbacks with high acid paper that only last on your bookshelf for 3 years or so, will be gone IMO before the end of this decade (2021). Look for the rise of independent eBook-stores in a strip mall near where you call home.
If B & N can transition to a new business model, they may survive. But maybe not in the high rent shopping malls they are in now.
Btw, Borders isn't "closing".......just some of it's stores. As fas as "most popular bookstore" in the USA, I'd have to say Amazon online would rank up there.
Btw, Borders isn't "closing".......just some of it's stores. As fas as "most popular bookstore" in the USA, I'd have to say Amazon online would rank up there.
I have a sad feeling that Borders will eventually close all stores. They've just announced another round of stores that will be shut down.
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Barnes and Nobel is another franchised retail store(s) that focuses on paperback "mass market" books. That is the business model that may be most impacted by the eReaders. Hardback and soft cover "Trade" books may survive, but cheap paperbacks with high acid paper that only last on your bookshelf for 3 years or so, will be gone IMO before the end of this decade (2021). Look for the rise of independent eBook-stores in a strip mall near where you call home.
If B & N can transition to a new business model, they may survive. But maybe not in the high rent shopping malls they are in now.
What are you doing to your books that they only last three years?
And Barnes and Noble is doing fine, since their Nook is a top-selling e-reader. With it, they have transitioned to a new business model.
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