"My hunch is that B&N never really embraced the Internet or e-books, tied as it was to the old-fashioned world of physical books and stores. As B&N focused on managing decline, a much more nimble Amazon could concentrate exclusively on the new world it was forming. B&N needed to destroy its business model to prevail. Now it is probably too late. There is a lesson for all businesses here."How Barnes & Noble fell so far so fast
I never liked Barnes & Noble, not because it sold actual books, but because its prices were always higher than Amazon or Borders. But there is nothing old-fashioned about real books. Nothing beats the feeling of holding a book in your hand and flipping through the pages, getting into the story. The structure of e-books today are built after the images of real books after all. When I read today that books are so called "old-fashioned" I really felt my 22 years of age, down to the very last page.
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