OK, I think I need to subscribe to Ted Gioia's Substack.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ง ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฌ & ๐๐จ๐๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐?
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
@joycereynoldsward It's a really good piece. Combine that with the fact that indie bookstores are booming as well.
@LiberalLibrarian I'm also getting regular payments trickling in from Ingram Spark. Nothing huge, but...someone's going to bookstores and ordering my paperbacks.
@LiberalLibrarian That Borders folding was the best damn thing to happen to them?
@SentinelOfTruth Oh, read the article. Ted addresses this, and no, Borders folding was not the best thing to have happened to them. Or, at least, they had leadership which didn't take advantage of the space that made in the bookselling racket.
@LiberalLibrarian That's a pretty good story. Actually want to go find a Barnes & Noble!
@LiberalLibrarian
I liked that read. found it on coso.
@LiberalLibrarian huh. Better look at this one because B&N has weirdly been my bestselling vendor for YEARS. Now it's starting to branch out--I'm getting Apple and Kobo sales (I list through Draft2Digital) but all the same, glad to see B&N doing better.