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...Continue reading
Category: Education
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 million in cash. Together, MBS and BNED will operate...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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 &...Continue reading
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 chaos does not bode...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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....Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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 29-year...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading