Target Partners With B&N Edu
B&N Edu took another step away from its college bookstore roots this week with the launch of a new partnership with Target. From BizJournals: Target will partner with Barnes & Noble [Read More ...]
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B&N Edu Buys Sister Company MBS Textbook Exchange
Len Riggio's college bookstore operator just acquired Len Riggio's textbook distributor: B&N Education today announced that it has acquired MBS Textbook Exchange (“MBS”) for $174.2 [Read More ...]
Bookstore Accuses College of Monopolizing the Textbook Market
I haven't seen a bookstore file a lawsuit as bughouse crazy as this since 2013, when several booksellers filed an antitrust lawsuit accusing Amazon of colluding with major publishers to use DRM to [Read More ...]
B&N Edu to Open 10,000 Square Foot Flagship Store in Newark
Remember how I reported that B&N Education was pivoting away from college bookstores in favor of running gift shops? It looks like I overstated the case. The WSJ is reporting that B&N Edu is [Read More ...]
Barnes & Noble Education Launches OER Platform
Having acquiesced to the realities of textbook retail, B&N Edu has turned to other ways of profiting off of curricula. On Wednesday B&N Edu announced the launch of Barnes & Noble [Read More ...]
B&N Education Now Runs College Gift Shops, And Not Just Bookstores
Yesterday I noted that the college bookstore market is being disrupted by online retailers like Amazon, virtual bookstore operators like eCampus, and textbook concessionaires like Akademos. The [Read More ...]
The Disruption of the College Bookstore Market Enters Phase Three
Trends and shifts in a market/industry generally go through three stages. In the first stage, the trend/change is noticed and discussed by insiders. In the second stage, the trend/change is reported [Read More ...]
Barnes & Noble Education is Opening College Bookstores Right and Left
When B&N Education was spun off from Barnes & Noble last year, it said it was going to expand its presence in the college bookstore industry by signing new contracts with colleges and [Read More ...]
This Wisconsin University Launched a Bookstore Without Books
For some unknown reason many people are convinced that only Amazon could open a college bookstore with no books, but that simply isn't true. Amazon has several competitors currently disrupting the [Read More ...]
Why Johnny Can’t Write
A British teacher wrote anonymously in The Guardian on Saturday about how the US's latest mistake in public education has crossed the pond and is now ruining the academic careers. Where in the US we [Read More ...]
New Survey Shows Used and Rented Textbooks Still Trump e-Textbooks
Digital textbooks are one of those ideas which publishers and technologists love but students don't like so much. They failed to catch on for a couple obvious reasons (money, and the fact that [Read More ...]
Amazon Pulls Content From Inspire Teacher Site Over Copyright Issues
Amazon Inspire was designed to let teachers share curricula, lesson plans, and textbooks they created, but it seems some teachers have failed to grasp the idea that one shouldn't submit others' work [Read More ...]
Brooklyn English Teacher Suspended for Providing Books to Students
An award-winning veteran English teacher has been put on administrative leave in retaliation for his ongoing conflict with his high school's curriculum decisions. From the NYPost: Todd Friedman, a [Read More ...]
B&N Education’s New Cosmetics Dept is the Death Knell for the College Bookstore
Over the past five years B&N has been replacing more and more of the books in its retail stores with pasta, 3d printers, alcohol, and other merchandise. It's gotten to the point where I'm not [Read More ...]
U-Cal Press, Calif. Digital Library Partner to Build Open Source Academic Publishing Platform
The consumer trade ebook market may get the majority of the press attention but it's not the total sum of the digital publishing industry. In academic publishing, for example, the print book [Read More ...]