Thread: Barnes & Noble Stores Will Not Stock Books Published By Amazon
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Old 02-01-2012, 11:34 AM   #35
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B&N doesn't stock books from ANYONE! ;)
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Originally Posted by switchman2210 View Post
Interesting news. I can understand why.

Barnes & Noble has decided not to stock books published by Amazon in their physical stores, keeping the new publisher out of the country’s largest network of brick and mortar bookstores....
Until a few years ago, I frequented B&N. But their selection has gone way down. Try to buy any second-tier recent complete SF or Fantasy series. Many books are in 3- or 4-book series. Currently they're often about vampires or werewolves, but my preference is SF or humor (e.g. Terry Pratchett, or the Craig Shaw Gardener books, or the Lawrence Watt Evans Ethshar books.)

If you buy a recent one and want to go back to the start of the series, you wind up on Amazon anyhow, since B&N can "order" it for 2-4 weeks out, at MSRP, while Amazon can get it to you tomorrow for below MSRP.

Moving to Kindle was a nice touch, but B&N was already Dead Store Selling. Maybe it's not feasible to carry deep stock, but without it there's no point in a B&M B&N to me.
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