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Originally Posted by Calenorn
Maybe Liberty Media needed cash to buy the Braves another washed-up relief pitcher. 
But seriously, the B&N college bookstores have a very sweet niche. Not only do they provide those exorbitantly priced textbooks, but they're also making a killing on college sports-team apparel. Not to mention the dorm room staples, from lamps to trash cans. Talk about your captive audience!
If B&N can manage the transition to digital textbooks, they will have a bottomless gold mine. This must be what has Microsoft interested. |
Don't forget some of the other things like graduation attire. Small, I know, but when you graduate you have to get it from the college bookstore. I had to do it when I graduated undergrad and I recently drove an hour to Detroit to get a cheap polyester cap, gown, and "hood" for $89.06 for my graduate degree graduation from the college bookstore.
I seriously wasn't happy about that but it's the rule. I wonder how much B&N makes from that (especially considering that some universities have fall and spring graduation ceremonies).