Libraries around the world feel the pinch, like for all other retailers. Most of the large chains are adaptation by nonbook items selling. B & N or a client of borders today can see everything a funky for stuffed animals and treat Japanese coffee cup. Oh and do not forget the coffee and cookies.
This summer, my favorite Barnes & noble began in renovation, room for a new section of games and educational toys for sale. This happened everywhere in the country. All libraries of bricks and mortar rival Amazon so as stores like Wal-Mart and Costco carry books less but discount they sell. They are also competing with the growing eBook field. Article, Carolyn Reidy, the CEO of Simon & Schuster (talk about an expert industry) provides e-books can be up to 40% revenue of its business in the next 3 to 5 years.Yet publishers are worried that also close to several libraries of bricks and mortar, fewer people (including electronic book readers) will be exposed to the latest livres.Sans views, customers know that is there.
B & N and borders entered the field of the eBook.However, while you can read a book by Nora Roberts on a Kindle or one flow, you cannot not to give your new baby a stuffed flow or the Kindle to play avec.Et you cannot block a Kobo eReader on your baby's crib and wait for the baby to be interested. Now, you can go to your local B & N and borders and purchase games and educational toys and stuffed animals.
When I heard for the first time on this new trend, I was prepared to be horrified. Here was still another reason libraries take the room away from books and sell something "book not."Then I saw the section of games and toys to my local B & N, my first reaction was "Oooh, how beautiful a selection".the price were better that I expected, and I saw my grandnephew would like toys. Then I turned and bought a book handheld or three, and I bought something on my flow, too. Something tells me that I succumbed to the master plan B & n.
Simply to show that they could be different and even borders too, has announced that they were to form a partnership with build-a-bear workshop. boundaries is facing enormous financial barriers these past years. To keep customers arriving, they have been promoting both the Sony Reader and the latest eReader Kobo. As a B & N, they lose their recipes on the Web, e-books, etc. This month, borders will open sections dedicated to build-a-bear, as well as the sale of books and bound to the build-a-bear brand DVD.
Of course, the announcement of build-a-bear encountered gasps of horror, too - some of them for me. How libraries dare even to sell nonbook items? I've illustrated stuffing across the floor of the border and the howling of children running on my legs. Then I looked around my local borders and noticed something.Guess what? They are already il.Comme most borders the United States, much of the Bank consists of section Paperchase, which sells stationery and hand cream and aluminium bottles with skulls. Beyond that, the stores also encourage customers with glitter balls this spark almost as much as the vampires in Twilight, as well as chocolate bars, Japanese sweets and snacks, liquidation of toys and games for all ages. Some borders even sell bottles Tru blood official energy drink.Even before put in the section of games and toys, my Barnes noble & sold chocolate Madam in forms possible, as well as coffee mugs, cups and voyages and bottles of water in aluminium.Et remember that bear Barnsie, the B & N official.
Is this really all that new? Even before borders opened in this area, Waldenbooks sold here nonbook items such as videos, and CDs. Stored nonbook, educational toys to Harry Potter and the sunset candy items during the years, border, and B & N. Wallet even designed for fans of anime.
What is new is the degree of it. Nonbook items become as session corn blown on local cinema - much of the revenue.This makes long nerveux.Personnes system drives fear that books will disappear. They did not mind so much if their borders sold a few games, as long as they could find books that they wanted.Now, people are worried, that they may find books in the middle of clutter.Many readers like the experience of the library.They do not want to trade the experience of going through something like Claus workshop.They fear also on distractions, especially if they go with children.Why go through that when they can buy online or purchase electronic books instead of this?
Items y nonbook are a source of distraction.I'll even admit that I came to adding a my livre.Bien purchase heard glitter ball, y for books and even purchased livres.Même with toys and games, and the sections of build-a-bear, they are still librairies.Librairies have something on the cinémas.Personne goes in one cinema comes to buy some popcorn, but some people might go to a library to find games and the jouets.Scène justeIls may purchase books, too! someone who did not enter a library years might be return, see something that they as on a screen and start reading nouveau.Qui sounds like a win/win situation for me.
Or as Carolyn Reidy says the New York Times, "I am for everything that brings traffic to the store, whether it's toys or games brings a family in the library, then I say."
-Anne Marble AAR
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