Barnes & Noble Is Laying Off Workers Amid Declining Sales

In a round of company-wide layoffs, Barnes & Noble has cut lead cashiers, digital leads and other experienced workers. Workers discovered the news when they showed up to work on Monday only to learn they no longer had jobs.

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Where am I going to buy my physical manga copies now?!

I had a liberal girlfriend in high school who dragged me here bi-weekly.

They fucking suck, they're a hangout for liberals, everyone's drinking Coffey, reading a copy of fuck white people, and smells like shit.

Guess they're learning there was no point in giving a local hang out to faggots with no income.

Aren't publishers jacking up book prices to make them "luxury" products anyway?

>cashiers
> high experienced workers
sure

>be good goy and buy new books for kiked prices
or go to biyearly used book fair that fills a warehouse and get paperbacks for 25 cents and hardbacks for 50

It's a fucking joke, I give away boxes of old books to charity like every month and the charity people are absolutely fantastically excited when I give them old childrens books like King Author, Alice In Wonderland, Robin Hood or Arabian Nights.

Books are easy as fuck to find cheap.

This place won't make it past next christmas.

DELETE THIS

They're completely obsolete, we don't need a huge new book store when e-reading and online retailers exist, there's also a huge used book market nowadays.

I don't see anything wrong with this. I read everything digitally, but I'd be willing to pay a thousand dollars for a leatherbound copy of The Last Unicorn with polished acrylic on the cover or some shit. Books don't need to be mass produced anymore.

>Be me
>Working in armored car
>It's the eve of a new Harry Potter midnight release
>Have a buttload of change (cash and coin) to deliver as well as pickup outgoing cash
>Make my way to the manager's office where the safe is. Someone usually radios when I walk in because we're on a 5 minute per stop schedule and do not wait past 5 minutes.
>Nobody radioed
>Bearded manlet manager shoves the door open, takes one look at me and throws his cordless phone at the wall screaming about how his day couldn't get any worse. Goes into his office and throws everything he can find. Slams the door a bunch of times and is sperging hard
>Notdealingwithatempertantrum.exe
>Refuse and walk back through the store to my truck outside
>Manlet manager follows
>Screaming at the top of his lungs about how I'm going to give him his change
>Tell him politely I'm refusing service
>Follows me out to my truck
>Stillnotdealingwiththistantrum.exe
>Knock on the door to get the driver to release the lock
>Manlet manager puts his hand on the door and tells me I'm not getting in until I give him his change
>I push him back. Draw my Glock 19 and order him to back away from the door.
>He keeps screaming and walking toward me
>I start circling the truck using it for cover telling him to back up so I can get inside
>Manlet still telling me he's going to have my job and I'm not leaving until he gets the money.
>Breh I'm going to shoot you if you don't back up
>Niggers down the street chimping out daaaaayummm this nigga gon get shot
>Manletendstempertantrum.exe and walks back inside thorougly defeat
>Go on with my day and have a good laugh with the driver

tl;dr Barnes and Noble can suck my dick, or cock.

>tfw you self publish novels with amazon and helped put this liberal shit hole out of business

i'm still considering buying BKS. only reason i haven't is i can tell big money is thinking the same.

You should have fucking shot him.

>I'M ABOVE THE LAW, I'M ABOVE A GUN, I VOTED DEMOCRAT SO I'M BETTER THAN YOU!

Cucked by Bezos lol

I could have, but luckily for him I have self restraint.

>go to Barnes & Noble
>"Hey do you have (any classic book title that isn't a Penguin Classic)?"
>"No, sorry, but we can order it for you."
>yeah, please, go on the internet and order a book for me. What would I do without you, Barnes and Noble?

What's the point of going to a book store if all they have is Stephen King, young adult crap, and Oprah Book Club propaganda?

>can suck my dick, or cock.
my nigga

Barnes and Noble cucked themselves.
They stock so much shit and blow cash in overhead.
Plus they're prices suck

Half Price for life

I go here every day after class before I have to go to work. No I'm not a liberal I just don't want to go home for a few hours till then. Prices there are high though. I just read then put in a bookmark then come back the next day. Here's a picture of some taco bell.

Yes, and that’s a good thing. You can get a million generic copies on Shamazon and resale shops. You can also go to a small publisher and get a beautiful rare book that you can pass down to your children. This is as true for the Everyman‘s Linrary as it is for Scarlet Imprint.

Becuase they also have couches and a barista.

They tried to make a hangout spot for pseudo intellectuals and forgot that none of them actually work so they have no income to siphon.

Shock, Barns Nobel and Beyond is fucked as American retail stores are going out of business thanks to China.....

WHAT A SHOCK, the US economy is going to shit cause they owe more money to China than they can pump out with their ponzi scheme stock market

SHOCKKK
Drain the swamp, kill the USA

Last time I walked into a Barnes and Noble, I had a sudden realization I could buy the book on amazon.com... 10 years ago.

>China

Amazon, Hue-Monkey. Calm your screeching laughter. Online retailers are what's killing physical stores. If anything we're receiving less shit from China than we did 10 years ago when everything down to your American flag said "Made in China".

F

bookstores were such a great aspect of my childhood. My parents could bring me to book readings, leave me with the thomas the tank engine train sets, and let me explore childrens' sections.

Bookstores aren't going out of business because of China, we're going out of business because of Amazon. That is literally the only reason. You can get books cheap as fuck on Amazon because they don't have overhead to pay or employees to employ. The only reason my store hasn't shut down is because we specialize in antiquarian and rare books, things you can't get online very easily. But for your average sub-100 IQ American just looking for romance novella trash or shitty teen fiction, there's literally no reason to go to a brick-and-mortar bookstore. Bookstores literally can't sell the books cheap enough to even afford to stay afloat financially, let alone turn a profit.

Couple that with the fact that most people these days aren't interested in books, or if they are, they prefer e-books and shit like that, and you've got a perfect storm to destroy the publishing industry.

t. bookstore owner and former employee of Barnes & Noble

Retail stores are going extinct because they are inferior to the competition. China isn't a problem. US productivity and GDP are high, but we don't need brick and mortar. We research on the net, we know what we want, and we buy it. I wanted a Speed Queen washer my local shops don't stock. Why order through them? I don't need them for anything. Amazon was less hassle.

>You can get books cheap as fuck on Amazon because they don't have overhead to pay or employees to employ
Fuck, just realize how dumb that sounded. Obviously they do have overhead and employees, what I mean to say is that they don't have to pay for a space to advertise and sell their books, or employees to do that. They just keep them in the warehouse with everything else.

I'm surprised they've lasted this long.

>Paying for books
What fucking year do these fuckers think it is? At this point there is no point to pay for a physical copy unless you plan on living in a wood without electricity or you are planning on surviving the apocalypse and want something to pass the time. Physical printed media is dead except for very few special circumstances.

I got your meaning. Amazon's able to pay their slave wages to packers and shippers while book store employees have to provide food and entertainment to keep their brick and mortar shit alive.

>Physical printed media is dead except for very few special circumstances.
I could point you to studies showing that those who read from a physical copy of text tend to retain the information better because they aren't distracted, and that it is less harsh on the eyes, but anyone who actually believes the dumb shit you just said is probably pic related so there's no point in arguing.

I only shop at the independent bookstore in my city. Because they offer a better selection, a convenient location, well-educated staff, a nice sit down restaurant+coffee bar, a sizeable children's section with things I'd actually want my nieces and nephews to read, proper long-lasting wooden shelving kept clean nicely despite the foot traffic, newly rotated stock with employee and critical recommendations with books of interest...

Barnes and Noble can eat my ass. Joseph Beth simply does the service tremendously better.

That and they can build their warehouse out in the sticks and make their workers come to them, while bookstores have to pay inner city rents and wages.

Good, B&N killed my Friendly Local Book Store and now Amazon is going to kill them. It's like pottery.

>I could point you to studies...
You could also drink a tall glass of pic related.

You fuckers trying to prop up a dying industry.

>You fuckers trying to prop up a dying industry.
"Physical print" is not an "industry" anymore than using footwear is an industry. It is just something that has basically always existed and always will.

I like to shop in person, but not at big box stores. As leftist as it sounds I like to support my local businesses. I'll buy a couple things a year online that I can't find in person, but other than at 99% of my business is done in person. I would rather get my ass off the couch and pay hardworking small business owners a little more than take the globalist bait and buy from an internet monopoly. I'll even go so far as to find things I like on Amazon, and purchase directly from the manufacturer. I don't want bezos getting a cent of my hard earned money.

You're full of shit too, but have you seen the new kindles?

My sister had one, it was like reading a page in a book, you couldn't tell the difference if it wasn't on a screen.

The problem is B&N has all that fucking floor space and they only sell mainstream trash. They could be chock full of excellent books leading people to browse and sell them shit-tons of coffee and snacks while they do. This is why independent bookstores crammed floor to ceiling with books are more profitable: more selection means you're more likely to get at least one sale from every person who walks in. But if all you have is the same lamestream garbage in every store, you're going to get tons of people who come in, can't find what they want (not ONE book of Japanese history, are you fucking kidding me?), and they get no sale.

I can't wait for the manga firesales.

Good

>book selection terrible
>prices absurd
>refusal to price match other brick and mortar stores
>random mom and pop bookstores have better selection and deals
>no used book exchange system

It's not rocket surgery to understand this.

library genesis world wide

t. pleb

No shit, Barnes & Nobles can't do anything a USB can't.

...

Unironically a cool story. Damn dude, close call. That would have been nervewracking to say the least if you actually shot him. You don't have near the protections a law enforcement officer does. I see your perspective though. Guarding yourself and that hefty cash/coin.

I always thought these bookstores had a nice environment. Then again, I wasn't going to them in liberal cities.

Throw yourself into the sea and be with the unicorns, King Haggard.

Have fun with your bitrot and rotational velocidensity. My paper books will be around centuries after I die.

When physical books get phased out it's going to be a lot easier to control and censor them.

Barnes and Noble is what a non-reader thinks a book store is like. You walk in, and you see a veritable sea of shelving, books stacked on tables, sections for many areas of interest. "Awesome" you think, and you begin to browse.

Fiction seems like a fair bet, so you look for Hemingway. You find 3 copies of "The Sun Also Rises" for $24.95 a piece and one copy of "For Whom the Bell Tolls." The rest of the shelf is filled with no-name romance authors and books that spent 6 hours on the NYT Best Seller list 15 years ago. You go to the next shelf to find every book that Newsweek has ever recommended.

Philosophy section is full of "ZOMBIES AND PHILOSOPHY" and a few fedora atheist books, mixed with pseudoscience self help. Wicca section is next door. 3 aisles of Christian Fiction. You begin to panic. You rush past 10 tables of shitty Game of Thrones merch to the psychology section, only to find that its half a shelf of Freud next to cookbooks and Oprah's favorite tantra books. The entire store is filled with books no one wants to read.

Some guy with a goatee is sadly pacing the DVD and Music section. Starbucks is there, but customers aren't. You grab a 5 dollar book on cars from the front for your nephew who likes cars, and are pressured to sign up for an expensive membership program, that only saves you money if you buy frequently. What would you even buy?

You complete your purchase, step around the old guy reading Soldier of Fortune magazine near the windows, and leave.

Real book stores are places of complete silence and messy shelves full of books you've never even heard of.

Mom and pop shops that are so silent when you walk in you wonder if anyone's ever bought anything there before.

I Lol'd. Thanks for that. Who the fuck chases after an armoured truck driver who's armed...

Bingo. And track what you read, and when.

Yes, and they're usually run by judgmental old men who act like you're bothering them by shopping there, but its so worth it. It makes the experience better even.

is this a copypasta that you've been saving or is it fresh original content?
it seems oddly specific.

Not pasta, just wrote it now

Damn right, you honestly expect to find a magical tome if you look long enough. That's how you know you're in a real bookstore.

Bookstores are popular in Asia, especially Japan.

It's not so much textbooks but because of the hundreds of manga released like every one to two months.

Manga is cheap and accessible. None of that hard cover/ dust cover bullshit.

America just doesn't have this culture. People just buy books to make their home look fancy or something to put on a coffee table.

Also, space is a issue. Hardcover books are usually fat and thick. Manga are quit skinny in comparison.

It's annoying to read a book while eating and drinking as well.

Thanks Obama.

I go there for gunpla, damn.

Delete that.

We have similar cultures, you just gotta know where to look.

Find your local retro gaming store or comic book store.

Unless you have a LED deak lamp that has an "orange" light setting, reading a book isn't necessarily better for your eyes.

Also, what is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux

Despite the good numbers few of your statements are actually true. As it happens, bookstores are doing quite well the past few years. The problem here is Barnes and Noble is run by motherfucking retards, like Borders before them. This is a case where their business model is failing, not their primary product. And it's failing due to poor execution more than anything.

People always say people don't read books but reading is at higher levels than ever. It's literally true that in the past most people did not own or read any books.

Bookstores are great for FINDING a book to read. That's their main benefit and why people like them. Also, you can take the book right now. You can read some of it to see if you like it. Etc etc. Bookstores that are well run do quite well.

I enjoyed this more than I thought I would have, thankies.

I bet the rent for the land is pretty expensive too since Barnes usually chooses pricy areas like malls or downtown area.

lol you're worried about a whopping 4 cm of front/back hardcover. Wow. I wonder what else seems FAT and THICC to you?

I am just saying that it is the same reason why not many people had DVD/BD/VHS collections at home.

Renting shit from Blockbuster was much better than taking precious space at home.

Same goes for regular books. They require shelves and space.

Also, people are lazy to keep dust out of their bookshelves.

Meanwhile, people can abuse manga as much as they want in Japan because manga are printed from recycled paper and its cheaper buying a new or used copy than trying to save the manga should you accidentally spill something or rip a page or cover.

this dude has been to B and N.

Thank you for the OC. Good.

If you want to go to a bookstore go to your local mom and pop bookstore. These overpriced strip mall pieces of filth need to die off.

There's a mainstream market for it in Japan and they produce manga on a level where throwing the book away is as cheap as trying to save it. Yeah, I gottcha.

But seriously, check out retro gaming shops and comic book stores. They're exactly the sort of thing you're talking about, except their niche enough to be run by people who give a shit.

There's a comic book shop like three blocks from me that takes trade-ins. I'll go in there on the weekend after getting a haircut and sift through fucking BOXES, AND BOXES, of classic old toys, comics, and all kinds of other shit. Buying collectors items from 10-20 years ago just sitting in plastic bins. It's fucking amazing.

That one place in DC east of the Capitol? I actually intimidated the guy with my book selection and he was polite with me after being extremely snarky with everyone ahead of me in line (that place was a fucking death-trap though, I hope his neighbors have good fire insurance).

>read everything digitally

>they don't work "in demand" work
>I legally grow/sell Cannabis, am a part-time mechanic (34 hours a week) and a DJ/sound provider 3 weekends a month
>I've done this for 11 years

>have 1000 books
>war happens
>no electrical grid
>no books
You dun goofed yourself

I still go to Barnes & Noble and buy books semi-regularly. It doesn't seem like there's fewer customers than there used to be.

for posterity, user

I don't know the place you're talking about but you described most quality book stores in major cities that I've been too. Found a few cool places in Philly like that, real hole in the wall little shops packed to the ceilings with dusty books that probably came from estate donations.

ayyy thanks user, that warms my heart

Fuck Barnes and Noble. They make their employees peddle $25 memberships that only get you a 10% discount. You’d have to spend $250 to break even. Who buys $250 worth of books a year? Worst job I ever had.

I looked it up, it's Capitol Hill Books. That was the only one I ever went to with a mean/snarky old man running the till. Other places I go it's the owner's niece or just some nice old guy who likes being surrounded by enough paper to recreate the WW2 Tokyo firebombings all the time.

As an area, I think New Orleans has some of the BEST used bookstores, and a lot of them. That's where I found actual spellbooks. But my favorite bookstore is Powell's City of Books in Portland. I found a home made print copy of "How to Evade Taxes" sealed in a plastic bag selling for $100. Didn't buy it though because I didn't want to get put on a list and audited every year for the rest of my life.

>no electrical grid
Solar panels and/or generator...

>buy a Kindle Paperwhite for like $100
>go online and download more books than I could read in one lifetime

I can't remember the time I actually bought a book, or any media for that matter.

I actually make a point of remember stores that don't try to force a fucking loyalty card on me.

I'll go into the one near me every few months if I'm driving by it just to see what new history stuff they have. They never fucking have new history stuff outside of shitty agenda driven pop history written either by liberal journalists or conservative commentators like O'Reilly.

>e-reading
Sucks more dick than a nigger faggot at a San Francisco bug chasing convention. If I'm going to read a book then I want a physical book. I've never found e-readers to compare.

books are unironically obsolete

You are someone who should really try buying a book and reading it. You don't multi-task, you just do that one thing. It'll probably change your life.

>Who buys $250 worth of books a year?
Pleb spotted.

I liked it too

I unironically don't care

Really....

>Where am I going to buy my physical manga copies now?!
this

you are more than welcome to be a consumer to a dying medium

This is pretty much every experience in Barnes and Noble I've ever had. Some times I'll head over to the mango section to see if there's anything interesting but it's just shelves of Attack on Titan being red by 14-year-old girls and 16-year-old Mexicans plopped in the middle of the aisle.