#Barnes&Noble

[tamapalace]

Barnes & Noble has Tamagotchi Connection on Shelves

The book store is coming through. This is the first time we’ve seen the Tamagotchi Connection on shelves in America! RaTamaZone was browsing their local Barnes & Noble store and recently discovered Tamagotchi Connection on shelves! Int he toy section under “Japanese Favorites”. What an incredible sight.

[strawberrymoron]

I'm trying to preorder THE BOOK OF BILL, wrnt to checkout only to realise that Barnes & Noble cannot ship to my country, do you guys have any suggestions what could I do :')

[nieceofshakespeare]

<3

[nickgerlich]

Turn The Page

I have always been a book worm. My parents instilled the value of reading at a very early age, aiding and abetting my youthful passion with frequent visits to the library, as well as occasional trips to bookstores to purchase items for what I now know was my own personal library. I am thankful, because their diligence paid off.

Throughout university, I hoarded books, even textbooks. Heck, I even bought texts for classes I could not take because my schedule was full. I was just hungry for knowledge. As an adult and a newly minted Texan—if the kind natives of the Lone Star State will allow me to make such a claim after 35 years—I could get lost for hours in Barnes & Noble and Hastings. When on travel, I would seek out the small, independent booksellers, if only because those always featured local authors and hence local flavor.

That all changed when Amazon launched in 1995. Their initial focus was only books, and their aggressive pricing strategy allowed it to make quick inroads. Whereas I loved the “library” feel of a B&N, with those dark, hard wood shelves, coffee bar, stuffed chairs that invited you to stay awhile, and the implicit message that you should be whispering, it was just too easy to shop from home. You know the drill.

Through the years, Hastings lost its battle and is now just a fading memory here in Amarillo and wherever else they had shops. Amazon introduced the Kindle in 2007, an attempt to get us to switch from tangible books to e-books. Rivals like Borders also folded, and B&N found itself hanging on for dear life. It closed many stores, launched its own ill-fated e-book reader, and prayed hard.

Today, B&N is staging a bit of a comeback. It is leaner, meaner, and more focused this time around. Actually, with a lot of its brick-and-mortar competition now out of the way, they have the space pretty much to themselves. And James Daunt, the CEO who took over in 2018, is making moves by opening five dozen new stores, and allowing each location to curate its own collection of books. In other words, they are free to reflect local interests, feature local authors, and enjoy a high degree of semi-autonomy. Why, they are becoming the independent mom-and-pop bookseller they too initially set out to destroy.

With an estimated one billion book sales each year (and about 90% being tangible), there is a lot at stake here. Book sales exceed movie ticket sales. Both are forms of entertainment, albeit very different. Movies, in spite of a lot of ticket price increases, are still cheaper than books, for which now a $30 price point is common for a new cloth-bound release, and yet we opt more for the latter.

But something funny happened as the digital era unfolded. Whereas we gladly (and quickly) changed our consuming ways of news, music, and movies, we never let go of our books. Online newspapers and streaming music and movies became the new normal. There’s something about reading a tangible book, though, manually turning the pages, smelling ink on paper, that just cannot be replicated on a tablet device. The page flip on a Kindle is a weak metaphor of the real experience. Oh, and nothing beats falling asleep on the sofa whilst reading, and awakening to your book and glasses on the floor. Priceless, I tell you.

Oddly, my university has fallen in love with e-books as our texts, and has new agreements with Cengage and McGraw-Hill to provide free access for any of their titles, as approved by the professor. I know. I do it for Consumer Behavior. This was a hard decision for a guy who has never sold any of his texts, and still has everything dating back to the late-70s.

Most students, though, don’t share that same nerdiness that I have, and I don’t know that I have ever met one yet who held on to a book just in case—you know—future reference might be needed.

I am thrilled that B&N has emerged as a survivor against the e-commerce giant that Amazon is. It does not mean that there are cracks in Amazon’s armor, or that e-commerce as a modality is teetering. No, it just means that both consumers and a big corporate chain have figured out that there is still some joy to be found in Mudville. Call it old school, new school, or just back to school, buying books at B&N is becoming the new black.

And with winter rapidly arriving, I can’t wait to hunker down at the Amarillo B&N for a few hours. They know that the longer a person stays, the more they will buy. Keep the coffee hot, I’ll be right there, credit card in hand. We have some catching up to do.

Dr “Buy The Book” Gerlich

Audio Blog

[the-algebra-thing]

I love you pinterest😭😭 I'm so wiped from work and then other socializing today so instead of watching the two shows I am supposed to and need to and want to watch I drew over a pinterest image of adam driver with my beloved bookstore ocs. so. here is that.

[michaelgburns]

[its-suanneschafer-author]

In Hunting the Devil, Dr. Jessica Hemings becomes caught up in the Rwandan Genocide and is forced to flee her home and clinic. She survives in the forests by scavenging from villages either abandoned by fleeing refugees or burned by Hutu extremitists.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, the ebook version of Hunting the Devil is free from April 7th rough July 15th, the 100 days the genocide lasted. The ebook is available on multiple platforms. A paperback is available as well.

For purchase links, go to https://suanneschaferauthor.com/hunting-the-devil/. 

[harrowfuckinghark]

hey gang, just so you know, half price on all hardcovers at Barnes and Noble 26 and 27th of December. Yes that includes special edition classics, that includes dnd books, that includes new hardcovers, that includes signed books, this includes cookbooks, and I’m pretty sure it includes kids picture books. Save money on books!

-with love, your local broke barnes and noble employee

[ach-sss-no]

Source: https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Sauron

dude thats sick. thats rad

[a-mermaids-heart]

Saw this at the bookstore 😂💀🖤

[terezis]

THEY'RE GONNA KILL AMERICA'S FAVORITE WIZARD

[hkthatgffan]

Barnes and Noble released some reviews of the Book of Bill...written by Bill himself!

[chickenchirps27]

i got myself some new prismacolors, and I knew what i needed to do

[the-algebra-thing]

let this magic trick in me be real, and let my body heal, amen

drew this for @gooeycats oc-tober and then never came back to any of the other prompts despite my plans. I'm still going to it's just. not gonna be in october lmfao. the first or second prompt was your oc in one of your own outfits and this is one of my favs to sleep in! I miss my bookstore ocs sooomuch and whenever I see tesla I'm like damn I gotta draw them more often!! and then I don't. so . maybe this time

[hadrianblackwaters]

If Tumblr gets shut down we should take this party to the comment sections of Warrior Cats books on www.barnesandnobles.com