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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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....Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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:...Continue reading
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....Continue reading
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...Continue reading