Bookstores — remember those? — have staged something of a comeback during the pandemic years, and the question now is can that really be sustained? Driven by factors from streaming media overload to the timeless appeal of in-store, in-person shopping that has roared back, bookstores...
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 it tries to battle Amazon, Financial Times reported Sunday. Recently the company has also bought Blackwell’s, which has been a...
Retailers are finding new methods to stay in contact with customers during the pandemic, such as SMS messaging, which has also given a boost to social commerce as companies such as Levi’s have gone public with their participation in TikTok’s “Shop Now” program. And in eCommerce, independent bookstores are seeing new life...
As bookstores remain shuttered nationwide, a 3-month-old online seller is stepping up. The Associated Press reported Andy Hunter, who recently launched Bookshop.org, saw the bookseller’s crisis long before the coronavirus pandemic closed many of the country’s stores. “Between 2015 and 2018, I saw this big...
April 17, 2022
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 it tries to battle Amazon, Financial Times reported Sunday. Recently the company has also bought Blackwell’s, which has been a U.K. bookseller for 143 years. That acquisition is adding to […]
March 31, 2020
As bookstores remain shuttered nationwide, a 3-month-old online seller is stepping up. The Associated Press reported Andy Hunter, who recently launched Bookshop.org, saw the bookseller’s crisis long before the coronavirus...
March 08, 2019
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 performance in several years,” the...
March 14, 2018
Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The store occupies a space that...
