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Subscription Merchants Tap Audiobooks to Drive Consumer Loyalty
Subscription Merchants Tap Audiobooks to Drive Consumer Loyalty
December 20, 2023  |  Subscriptions

As businesses compete for subscribers’ long-term loyalty, key players are increasingly leveraging audiobooks to keep customers coming back. Take, for instance, Spotify, which announced last...

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Barnes & Noble CEO: Store Expansion and Revamped Loyalty See Bookstores Turning the Page
Barnes & Noble CEO: Store Expansion and Revamped Loyalty See Bookstores Turning the Page
April 05, 2023  |  Retail

Bookstores — remember those? — have staged something of a comeback during the pandemic years, and the question now is can that really be sustained?...

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Barnes & Noble Launches Two-Tiered Membership Program
Barnes & Noble Launches Two-Tiered Membership Program
February 17, 2023  |  Loyalty & Rewards

Barnes & Noble has expanded its offerings in the growing membership program competition. The retailer of books and digital media now offers both a free membership program and...

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Barnes & Noble Owner Waterstones Adds UK Book Chain Blackwell’s as It Takes On Amazon
Barnes & Noble Owner Waterstones Adds UK Book Chain Blackwell’s as It Takes On Amazon
April 17, 2022  |  Retail

Waterstones, the U.K. retailer and owner of U.S. bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, has been undergoing a series of changes to its bookselling model as...

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Amazon, Barnes & Noble Pull Digital Purchases in Response to Google Play Crackdown
Amazon, Barnes & Noble Pull Digital Purchases in Response to Google Play Crackdown
April 04, 2022  |  Mobile Applications

Google Play will soon be more ubiquitous, as developers selling their digital goods on Android apps will have to switch to Google Play billing or...

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TikTok Fueling ‘Reading Renaissance,’ Increased Sales of Physical Books
TikTok Fueling ‘Reading Renaissance,’ Increased Sales of Physical Books
October 26, 2021  |  Retail

In June 2020, national book retailer Barnes & Noble started seeing surges in sales of certain trade paperbacks and couldn’t figure out why — until...

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Barnes & Noble Going Private
Barnes & Noble Going Private
June 07, 2019  |  Retail

After struggling for a decade in the era of Amazon ascendance, Barnes & Noble will be going private, care of a private equity firm, Elliott...

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Barnes & Noble’s Comp Sales Rise 1.1 Pct Amid Strong Holiday Season
Barnes & Noble’s Comp Sales Rise 1.1 Pct Amid Strong Holiday Season
March 08, 2019  |  Retail

Amid a strong holiday season, Barnes & Noble, Inc. reported an increase of 1.1 percent in comp sales. The result showed “the Company’s best quarterly...

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Sizzle/Fizzle: Barnes & Noble Founder Eyes Buyback, Job Growth Hits High
Sizzle/Fizzle: Barnes & Noble Founder Eyes Buyback, Job Growth Hits High
October 05, 2018  |  Sizzle/Fizzle

It seems that Barnes & Noble as the world has known for the last four decades may be readying to sign off. The firm announced...

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