How Barnes & Noble Copy-Pasted a Turnaround

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Barnes & Noble isn’t playing by the corporate playbook - it’s taking notes from independent bookstores instead. After flirting with bankruptcy in the 2010s, the book retailer turned the page when it implemented a new business strategy that saved the company. Barnes & Noble’s recovery also comes at a time when physical book sales are rising, and #BookTok is taking off - which might also explain why consumers are returning to physical bookstores again.

[@nildamager1649]

Love my Local Barnes and Noble. I believe that each store should have their own unique store

[@johnchoi8748]

I think each Barnes and Noble should have there own design and unique style. This would attract even more tourists! I should be managing for them. Hahaha

[@bellthebooknerd]

Trust me, all the employees also agree

[@isaacmartinez6904]

Barnes and Nobels is my favorite place to go. Mostly to buy Criterion movies and going to their cafe (varies on what location).
Sometimes I buy books there.

[@e815usa]

They also own a ton of college campus bookstores!

[@ommanipadmehung3014]

What are the chances of these book haulers reading the 80 books or so they just bought in this social media performance? Basically nothing given the attention spans of most of us these days. so basically they made their way out of the mess through tik Tok turning book hauls into something you can show off for everyone to see even though most of those books will enevr ven have theirnfirst page opened. More mindless debt plunging consumerism. What a joke humanity has become.