Barnes & Noble may split off Nook business (Liberal bookseller preparing for Chapter 11?)

Reuters ^ | 1/5/12 | Brad Dorfman

[Wuli]

“Have no sympathy for the lefty groups / outfits that want to shove socialism in our faces. Notice every time you go into those BN stores - the lefty authors are all in prominent places? That’s why I stopped going there. I will NOT promote or support left leaning in your face stores.”

I learned that this issue has more to do with the nature of the book selling business and the publishing industry, and its demographics, than it does political sentiments of the book sellers or their managers.

It is a business after all; and the publishing business is dominated by Liberals and the book selling business has a small segment (very small) of their “bricks and mortar” revenue from selling the right to have your books placed prominently, particularly with newer released works. Thus the predominantly Liberal publishers pay the book seller more if the book seller gives their new book a good placement. The politics of the publisher may tend to be Liberal, the process in showing the books in the store is primarily a business process.

Maybe a better question is why do not more Conservatives go into the publishing and media businesses, by which they would also pay to have their works given good placement at the bricks and mortar book stores (which actually does happen from time to time) ??

[Revolting cat!]

Is it gonna be called NookInc?

[KarlInOhio]

I tried that a few days ago, and they told me that they don’t “price-match.” WITH THEIR OWN WEBSITE!

Best Buy did that to me. So I put a little mark on the package I was trying to get price matched and put it back on the shelf. I then ordered the same item for store pickup at the web price and went to pick it up. What do you know - I got the exact same package I was trying to get them to price match. So they had to do the work of printing the order, going to the shelf to get it and then holding it for me just to keep from matching their own web price. Idiots!