bookstores
Anyone Got Any Good Ideas for Barnes & Noble?
Hamilton Nolan · 07/10/13 10:48AMWe've Passed Peak Barnes & Noble
Hamilton Nolan · 01/28/13 10:41AMThe national book store chain Borders folded in 2011, leaving Barnes & Noble as the undisputed king of Big Huge Chain Bookstores. In that specific industry, B&N has had no competition for the past year and a half. Yet they are preparing to downsize anyhow. The Big Huge Chain Bookstore golden era has passed.
Is Barnes & Noble in Trouble?
Hamilton Nolan · 12/02/11 09:00AMBorders, America's second biggest book store chain, died this summer, its red-trimmed outlets sinking inexorably into a savage sea of red ink. (Beat that lede, Wall Street Journal!) For Barnes & Noble, the most popular book chain, this could be interpreted as good news: its biggest competitor was gone. Or, bad news: book stores are a dying industry.
Borders Is Dead
Hamilton Nolan · 07/18/11 04:03PMBorders Could Disappear Forever This Weekend
Hamilton Nolan · 07/14/11 11:22AMBook Store Owners Are Onto You, Cheapskates
Hamilton Nolan · 06/22/11 09:38AMYou think the owner of that book store doesn't know what you're doing? Oh, they know exactly what you're doing. You say you "love" books? You say you enjoy perusing the soothing aisles of a book store, so lovingly curated by a book store owner who spends his or her life ensuring that the very latest and most interesting book selections are there, presented for you in the most interesting possible way? You like that a lot? Yeah. So you can go home and order that shit online. Fuckers.
Why Buy Barnes & Noble?
Hamilton Nolan · 05/20/11 10:27AMBorders' Revitalization Plan: Anything But Books
Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/11 09:25AMThe Borders Aftermath: Who Falls Next?
Hamilton Nolan · 02/17/11 12:54PMBorders Is Bankrupt. Use Your Gift Cards Now!
Hamilton Nolan · 02/16/11 09:18AMBorders Filing for Bankruptcy
Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/11 03:45PMBorders Gets a Loan For Some Reason
Hamilton Nolan · 01/28/11 09:27AMBorders Death Watch, Vol. 2 (Updated)
Hamilton Nolan · 01/17/11 11:21AMBorders Death Watch
Hamilton Nolan · 01/04/11 10:14AMRon Burkle Loses Battle for Barnes & Noble
Hamilton Nolan · 09/28/10 11:45AMBarnes & Noble Calls Ron Burkle Stupid
Hamilton Nolan · 08/26/10 09:46AMFamous Bookstore Run By Jerk
Hamilton Nolan · 05/02/08 12:25PMThe Strand, the humongous New York bookstore by Union Square that is like one of the biggest used book stores ever of all time, has always attracted lots of young workers who take the low pay in exchange for the cool factor of working at the place, and the chance to be around books all day. One negative: the store is run by a despised woman named Nancy Bass Wyden (trivia: she's married to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden). I've known several people who worked at The Strand, and they universally agree on her tyranny. Now, the New York Press has actually done some investigative work on the claims, and it's found evidence for allegations of racial discrimination, callous disregard for pregnant women, and—most terrifyingly—"fungus from rats."