Barnes & Noble just laid off a massive number of people, including head cashiers and receiving managers:
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/barnes-noble-is-killing-itself/
http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble
This is scary stuff to me. I don't want Amazon to have even more of a stranglehold on the book industry. I don't want it to be Amazon's T&C or else for all publishers everywhere. That doesn't seem like a healthy book market...
If B&N does go under, I suppose the one silver lining will be indies getting a boost, but I don't know if they have enough power in the market to be a reckoning force against Amazon. I'd be very glad to be corrected if I'm wrong.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/barnes-noble-is-killing-itself/
http://audreyii-fic.tumblr.com/post/170886347853/the-entirely-unnecessary-demise-of-barnes-noble
This is scary stuff to me. I don't want Amazon to have even more of a stranglehold on the book industry. I don't want it to be Amazon's T&C or else for all publishers everywhere. That doesn't seem like a healthy book market...
If B&N does go under, I suppose the one silver lining will be indies getting a boost, but I don't know if they have enough power in the market to be a reckoning force against Amazon. I'd be very glad to be corrected if I'm wrong.