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B&N needs to take a bigger page from D&B. Video game arcades are not profitable but bars/restaurants are. B&N needs to expands the food/coffee business model more to maybe a full bar/restaurants.
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Originally Posted by MJ7
I think that is a great idea, the bar especially. People can get loose and talk literature. Hell maybe even Barnes could craft their own beer.
Those are both intriguing thoughts. Not sure about a bar though.
Ours is always busy. Some days it is tough to find a parking space.
Our's too.
There are a lot of home schoolers in our area and B&N caters to them. Lots of parents and kids in the store together. Fine with me. I like seeing a bookstore full of kids excited about reading and learning.
I think that is a great idea, the bar especially. People can get loose and talk literature. Hell maybe even Barnes could craft their own beer.
Would be cool to see them put the Bar in Barnes. I'd still probably just sit there and read alone for hours as I do now (sometimes after ordering a green tea or coffee from the cafe, sometimes after bringing in my own)...in the bar-equipped Barnes & Noble of the future, they'd know it would be time to cut me off if I started approaching people and offering unfiltered commentary on their reading choices
I think B and N shot themselves in the foot with the comfy chairs and coffee idea. While it looks good on paper ( a customer can spend time there making a decision before they buy) in reality people are takers. I see them all the time just loafing there, reading the magazines and books, and then putting them back on the shelf and walking out with no purchases. They think they are at the public library !
Taker that I apparently am, that's what I do, pretty much every time. Over the past five years I've read probably ten entire books and parts of hundreds of others at the Barnes & Noble location in Amherst, NY. I purchase maybe one book per year. However I still spend around 200 dollars a year there...200 dollars I would not be spending there otherwise.
Also, as oldhousegirl noted in her previous B&N-related thread, the plush chairs no longer exist at the location I frequent. Doesn't matter to me; I'll sit on a floor or countertop if allowed. The in-store environment is much more conducive to focusing on one's reading than most environments I'd be in in the event that I actually buy a book. I've on more than one occasion thought to myself after buying a book, "well, I should take it back to the store tomorrow and read it there in the absence of these distractions" (in-home distractions, park distractions, etc).
Taker that I apparently am, that's what I do, pretty much every time. Over the past five years I've read probably ten entire books and parts of hundreds of others at the Barnes & Noble location in Amherst, NY. I purchase maybe one book per year. However I still spend around 200 dollars a year there...200 dollars I would not be spending there otherwise.
Also, as oldhousegirl noted in her previous B&N-related thread, the plush chairs no longer exist at the location I frequent. Doesn't matter to me; I'll sit on a floor or countertop if allowed. The in-store environment is much more conducive to focusing on one's reading than most environments I'd be in in the event that I actually buy a book. I've on more than one occasion thought to myself after buying a book, "well, I should take it back to the store tomorrow and read it there in the absence of these distractions" (in-home distractions, park distractions, etc).
Curious but why don't you just go to a library and do the same thing? They have the cozy chairs, sometimes a small cafe area, and an atmosphere that is calm and pleasant for the most part, AND they don't expect you to buy anything. So why go to a bookstore for that?
Would be cool to see them put the Bar in Barnes. I'd still probably just sit there and read alone for hours as I do now (sometimes after ordering a green tea or coffee from the cafe, sometimes after bringing in my own)...in the bar-equipped Barnes & Noble of the future, they'd know it would be time to cut me off if I started approaching people and offering unfiltered commentary on their reading choices
Lmao this is a seriously cool idea
I do the same thing at Barnes & Noble- but boy a bar in there would really make it interesting
I used to go to B&N all the time until I got my Nook. No need to go to a bookstore when I can just go online and get the book, sometimes for cheaper than it would be if I bought it in the store. The B&N in my area is always packed when I go by it, so SOMEBODY is still going there, if only to get coffee and read a couple magazines.
I have a 2 Books a Million in my area and one Barnes and Noble (all three within 10 miles)....so far so good...all seem to attract quite a bit of business.
Someone mentioned that the Kindle is keeping B&N alive...I think they meant the Nook is keeping them alive. Kindle is an Amazon product...not B&N. I have a Kindle and love it....and I download books from Amazon all the time..you can't beat their prices and sometimes it just boils down to price. It's much easier for me to carry 150 books on my Kindle than to store them on a shelf...and this comes from a die hard book fanatic.
I still browse the bookstores and will buy my grandkids books sometimes, or will find something for myself that just I can't bear to read on Kindle...sometimes you have to have a book in hand (reference books, cookbooks, etc)
I have a 2 Books a Million in my area and one Barnes and Noble (all three within 10 miles)....so far so good...all seem to attract quite a bit of business.
Someone mentioned that the Kindle is keeping B&N alive...I think they meant the Nook is keeping them alive. Kindle is an Amazon product...not B&N. I have a Kindle and love it....and I download books from Amazon all the time..you can't beat their prices and sometimes it just boils down to price. It's much easier for me to carry 150 books on my Kindle than to store them on a shelf...and this comes from a die hard book fanatic.
I still browse the bookstores and will buy my grandkids books sometimes, or will find something for myself that just I can't bear to read on Kindle...sometimes you have to have a book in hand (reference books, cookbooks, etc)
I stand corrected, it is the Nook, not the Kindle, you are correct, thanks.
Curious but why don't you just go to a library and do the same thing? They have the cozy chairs, sometimes a small cafe area, and an atmosphere that is calm and pleasant for the most part, AND they don't expect you to buy anything. So why go to a bookstore for that?
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