Barnes Noble Can't Blame Amazon for Everything: Sarah Halzack

[...]Barnes & Noble was among the earliest companies to feel the punishing competitive pressure of Amazon.com Inc., with Jeff Bezos’s ruthless convenience machine putting books on shoppers’ doorsteps quickly and reliably. Barnes & Noble couldn’t have followed Best Buy’s playbook exactly; sel...

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Published in:	National Real Estate Investor 2019-06
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Bezos, Jeffrey Bookstores Electronic book readers Electronic commerce Information services Joly, Hubert Online information services Retail trade Securities industry Shock Specialty stores Toys
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Summary:	[...]Barnes & Noble was among the earliest companies to feel the punishing competitive pressure of Amazon.com Inc., with Jeff Bezos’s ruthless convenience machine putting books on shoppers’ doorsteps quickly and reliably. Barnes & Noble couldn’t have followed Best Buy’s playbook exactly; selling books is simply a different business from selling big-ticket items like 4K TVs. [...]in several cases, it has been a prelude to grave trouble.
ISSN:	0027-9994