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Target Partners With B&N Edu

18 August, 201728 August, 2017Barnes & Noble, Education2 Comments

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...

B&N Edu Buys Sister Company MBS Textbook Exchange

28 February, 201728 February, 2017Barnes & Noble, EducationOne Comment

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...

Bookstore Accuses College of Monopolizing the Textbook Market

30 January, 201730 January, 2017Bookstore, Education3 Comments

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...

B&N Edu to Open 10,000 Square Foot Flagship Store in Newark

20 December, 201625 December, 2016Barnes & Noble, Bookstore, EducationOne Comment

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....

Barnes & Noble Education Launches OER Platform

26 October, 201627 October, 2016Barnes & Noble, EducationLeave a comment

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...

B&N Education Now Runs College Gift Shops, And Not Just Bookstores

18 September, 20161 July, 2017Barnes & Noble, Education5 Comments

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...

The Disruption of the College Bookstore Market Enters Phase Three

17 September, 201630 January, 2017Bookstore, Education7 Comments

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...

Barnes & Noble Education is Opening College Bookstores Right and Left

19 August, 201619 August, 2016Barnes & Noble, EducationOne Comment

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...

This Wisconsin University Launched a Bookstore Without Books

5 August, 201612 May, 2017Bookstore, Education9 Comments

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...

Why Johnny Can’t Write

25 July, 201626 July, 2016Education5 Comments

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...

New Survey Shows Used and Rented Textbooks Still Trump e-Textbooks

25 July, 201610 August, 2016Education, surveys & polls7 Comments

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...

Amazon Pulls Content From Inspire Teacher Site Over Copyright Issues

30 June, 20161 July, 2016Amazon, Education11 Comments

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...

Brooklyn English Teacher Suspended for Providing Books to Students

25 May, 201612 May, 2017Book Culture, EducationOne Comment

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:...

B&N Education’s New Cosmetics Dept is the Death Knell for the College Bookstore

16 May, 201617 May, 2016Barnes & Noble, Education22 Comments

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....

U-Cal Press, Calif. Digital Library Partner to Build Open Source Academic Publishing Platform

2 May, 20163 May, 2016content creation, ebook tools, Education, PublishingLeave a comment

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...