…of their own) are also becoming nostalgic about this big-box bookstore where they discovered Harry Potter and other childhood favorites and attended storytelling sessions that brought books alive. Daunt noted…
…an Amazon strategy that applies, in the words of a company press release, “20 years of online bookselling experience that integrates the benefits of offline and online bookshopping.” Bucking Online…
…those intervening years was Borders Group, which owned mall-based bookseller Waldenbooks as well as the big-box Borders stores. Borders Group went out of business in 2011. The only remaining major…
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…store on earth by taking on every product and service category within its reach. While Amazon’s first slogan “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore” did describe the business they were in, it did…
…bookstores provide a story of hope for community-led businesses.\” He discovered a formula that local indie bookstores have used to beat Amazon at the bookselling game in what he calls…
…of legacy retailing. But I digress. One Big Irony Let’s take a step back. Amazon Books. Are you kidding me? Think about it. Bezos builds the biggest bookstore in the…
…online customer reviews, the stores will be stocked from day-one with those books most preferred by consumers in each location. Also, as in the Seattle test, the books will be…
…promoting the tactic of stocking the books customers are most likely seeking online. If a customer can’t find the books of choice, or doesn’t want to carry books around, orders…
…after 2005\’s Hurricane Katrina, Tom Lowenburg and his wife Judith Lafite re-opened Octavia Books. \”We did it because we thought that a bookstore is not just a Mom & Pop…
