Barnes & Noble is about to go under brehs

[Lord_Chief_Rocka]

That’s not amazons fault. They are doing what they are supposed to do.

Yeah and the government should put them in check

 

[levitate]

Blu-rays and DVDs are like $40 apiece

 

[Miles Davis]

Outdated business model combined with the failure to adapt to the digital space in a timely manner. I love reading books and will never forget the simple joys of going in there for Textbooks for college because our bookstore was too expensive for us broke undergrads.

I can't tell you how many books and magazines I would spend hours reading at Borders, who at one point in time was their main competitor.

If I were B&N, I would have purchased a small player in the digital content sharing platform like Scribd.

This. After reading a bit of Bill Gates book business at the speed of thought, this is exactly what he was saying how you’ve gotta see where things are heading and it’s the web. This was the early 00s and these companies had years to adapt and try but they were stubborn and slow. He even thought that eventually MS will go out of business, it’s a matter of when not if.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Their problem has been pricing. They don't even price match their OWN website in store.

A physical/digital edition of a new book will be $12-15 on Amazon and BN.com, but that shyt will be $20-25 in store. Blu-rays and DVDs are like $40 apiece unless you catch a sale. Their whole business model has been way too slow to evolve.

Pricing was and still is a problem with ALL brick and mortar stores... they GOTTA charge MSRP to cover expenses ...

the warehouse has fewer employees to pay .. no high ass NYC rent and utilities ... etc

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

Strand Bookstore in NYC is pretty dope, I bought a few physical copies up there. But the thing is they don't have a million locations like B&N, shyt is the death nail to some of these companies. The overhead must be millions a year.

 

[BonafideDefacto]

My favorite store

 

[Zero]

I'll say this though, ebook prices are a bit ridiculous.

WHY is the Kindle edition more expensive than the paperback?

Considering how braindead easy it is to pirate (and convert if necessary) an ebook, you'd think all the incentive in the world would be given for a purchase.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

We living in a modern day world where department stores are in our cell phones.

 

[LezJepzin]

The cool thing about the store was not just popping in to buy books, it was wandering around for hours in all the aisle, take a break and read a mad magazine, and just hanging out with friends there. Main reason I miss the huge Virgin mega stores as well, used to be a required stop when out with my friends on the weekend in San Francisco, borders was the go to out here at town square in Vegas. All gone

I preferred the Virgin Megastore we had here in Sac . shyt was right next door to the Barnes and noble along with walking distance to the Mall

Remember they sold Virgin condoms


But I hate this

 

[Kinguno]

Very important to me growing up

The one in Bay plaza I would chill with friends and so many girls

Those Harry Potter book release parties were so amazing to a young me

I will pour some out for barnes and Noble

 

[MegaManX]

And in a progressive society we have to keep moving forward. Resources and time shouldn’t be wasted on things that aren’t innovative or pushing us to a higher level. shyt is a dangerous mindset to have. Either adapt to the climate or die.

climate? You mean 1 fukking company. Are you a social darwinist? Monopolies are DANGEROUS to society. Extremely dangerous.

 

[ThankUBasedBret]

Very important to me growing up

The one in Bay plaza I would chill with friends and so many girls

Those Harry Potter book release parties were so amazing to a young me

I will pour some out for barnes and Noble

The one in Bay Plaza was my first real job.

Live in California now. Heard they turned it into a Saks Fifth Ave. shyt don't make no sense having Saks in that area.

 

[GunRanger]

Barnes and noble is too expensive

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Its retails fault, they never really adapted enough only, Amazon came in and fixed everything wrong
"it takes to long" sure hows same day? Sit your ass home we are even quicker than getting to a store
Amazon pricing, shipping, return policy everything.

All these stores dead man lol

I’m not sure what people mean when they say adapt... you talking about flipping business models that are over half a century old... billions were made off that model... you just don’t flip that on a whim.... also.. people act like Amazon was crushing it right out the gate.. it took more than a minute before Amazon was actually profitable

 

[The_Sheff]

People are really going to miss physical stores once they dwindle down to only being able to survive in large cities. The race to the bottom is only going to hurt society long term. All these jobs gone only to be replaced by robots. And the jobs Amazon can't automate they drive the wages down to peanuts and work the shyt out of you for no long term benefits.