Business insider compares AmazonBooks to B&N:
http://www.businessinsider.com/amazo...hain-retail-20
Lots of pics.
They don't like AmazonBooks but they do document all B&N does wrong.
Bottom line:
Quote:
Barnes & Noble provides a compelling, if imperfect, alternative to local bookstores in cities that can't sustain them. But its retail strategy more closely resembles those of struggling department stores — selling too many things in too big a space — than more innovative counterparts like Apple and Warby Parker.
A minimalist approach might be best for tech products, but it doesn't work as well for bookstores. The more you limit inventory, the more you defeat the purpose of going to a bookstore in the first place. Barnes & Noble is a better store than Amazon Books, but it's tied to a worse business model
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