{"id":14211,"date":"2016-06-23T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=14211"},"modified":"2016-06-23T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:08:55","slug":"the-economics-of-barnes-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2016\/the-economics-of-barnes-noble\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Barnes &#038; Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-14212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Barnes-n-Noble.jpg\" alt=\"Barnes n Noble\" width=\"642\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Barnes-n-Noble.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Barnes-n-Noble-300x198.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Barnes-n-Noble-768x507.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Shephard wrote about Barnes &amp; Noble and what would happen if it went out of business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s share price is down 40% and its debts are rapidly rising.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of its money these days come from selling games, gadgets, and Starbucks fare. Unsurprisingly the amount of floor place devoted to books has fallen.<\/li>\n<li>But even this may not be enough and the chain may soon have to shut down, in what would be a blow to publishers and writers.<\/li>\n<li>Barnes &amp; Noble is one of the few bookstores that purchases a large initial quantity of new books. Amazon on the other hand makes small orders both to test the market and\u00a0create demand by saying that it only has 5 copies left of a book.<\/li>\n<li>The initial orders that Barnes &amp; Noble puts in provide the upfront cash that publishers need to ensure that they can pay for ads and book tours that then create recognition and\u00a0induce demand for new\u00a0books.<\/li>\n<li>This will mean that without Barnes &amp;\u00a0Noble\u00a0publishers will increasingly have to invest in books that they know will succeed &#8211; those, for example, from celebrity authors.<\/li>\n<li>There will also be fewer advances paid to authors, meaning that authors will no longer have the time or resources to write a good book.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about what a future without Barnes &amp; Noble would look like over <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/133876\/pulp-friction\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/133876\/pulp-friction\">New Republic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Shephard wrote about Barnes &amp; Noble and what would happen if it went out of business: Barnes &amp; Noble&#8217;s share price is down 40% and its debts are rapidly rising. A lot of its money these days come from selling games, gadgets, and Starbucks fare. Unsurprisingly the amount of floor place devoted to books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Barnes-n-Noble.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14213,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14211\/revisions\/14213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}