U.S. Book Show: B&N CEO Says Chain Is in Midst of Significant Change - Publishers Weekly

Today, Panzer was just tootling around in the Catosphere when the Panzermobile was buffeted by clapping and cheering outside. Following all the hullabaloo took our brave kitty boy to the Publishers Weekly site. There he discovered a post about Barnes and Noble was causing all the noise.

Change is good.

According to a post by Ed Nawotka, Barnes and Noble's CEO James Daunt discussed his changes to the chain's bookstores at the U.S. Book Show. These included store managers have more autonomy, books' shelving location changes and online bookstore changes. The post includes other changes as well.

 

Panzer says, "A lot of this little kitty's ebook sales come from the B&N online store."

 

Note: This is a long-medium length post. Bring a large cup of tea, a muffin and two chocolate chip cookies for today's reading selection.

 

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BookExpo 2018: B&N Boss Says More Bookstores the Better - Publishers Weekly (PW)

Today's trip into the Catosphere took Panzer to the Publishers Weekly site. There our traveling kitty found a post about the opening speech at the BookExpo 2018.

According to the post by Ed Nawotka, Barnes and Noble Chairman Len Riggio presented the opening speech at this year's BookExpo. The speech was centered on independent bookstores and chain bookstores co-existing. Mr. Riggio said readers are returning to physical books because they like the feel of a book and want to have a physical library. In order to accomplish this readers will need both independent and chain bookstores. He also stressed the importance of following new trends such as audio books.

Actually, real books never went away.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... Maybe, Mr. Riggio knows what he's talking about. ... Mom has a Kindle ereader, a PaperWhite and a huge pile of to be read real books."

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea and a muffin for today's reading selection.

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