Barnes and Noble
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The Incidental Bookseller
In n+1‘s continuing examination of Amazon, Ruth Curry, co-founder of online bookstore Emily Books, looks at the relationship of the online megastore to publishers. Amazon’s entry into the publishing world was an accident: Amazon was only incidentally a bookseller: Bezos…
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What the death of Barnes and Noble means for suburbia
At The New Republic, Mark Athitakis eulogizes the steady collapse of Barnes and Noble. The store, which for many people growing up in rural and desolate areas provided the only literary community around, is now leaving a void in book…
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Eulogy for Barnes & Noble #2628: A Personal History
The bookstore I worked at in college recently closed. I hadn’t thought of the store in probably a few years, hadn’t set foot inside in considerably longer.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs are full of awesome this week. You should read them. How to write to an editor: “I have given your request for evidence 23 hours of thought, the proper number of hours to come up with the…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
A confluence of politics and poetry: Senate Sotomayor votes explained in haiku. No great surprise, but poetry is disappearing from B&N bookshelves in Chico, CA. And pretty much every B&N, for that matter. Sometimes I feel like I should just…