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    Barnes & Noble does business -- big business -- by the book. As the #1 bookseller in the US‚ it operates about 650 superstores throughout 49 states and the District of Columbia under the banners Barnes & Noble‚ Bookstop‚ and Bookstar‚ as well as about 200 mall stores using the names B. Dalton‚ Doubleday‚ and Scribner’s. The company’s GameStop subsidiary is the #1 US video game retailer with about 1‚500 stores under the names Babbage’s Etc.‚ GameStop‚ and FuncoLand. Barnes & Noble owned about 75%

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    Barnes & Noble and BN.com After a careful and thorough analysis of this project‚ in spite of the fact that it has competitive brand recognition and a new distribution center‚ we reached the conclusion that this project is not as profitable as it sounds given the negative NPV. In the following paragraphs we describe the decisions made and the reasoning behind them. In regards to the first decision we made about the use of distribution facility‚ personnel‚ and other charges‚ we went with the head

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    Cassie Bruce Anderson University Barnes & Noble Case Analysis Fall 2014 To: CEO at Barnes & Noble From: Cassie Bruce Re: E-book Conflict Date: October 26‚ 2014 Introduction/Environment In today’s market‚ there is an advent of e-books and e-reader devices. Amazon‚ the leader in the e-reader industry‚ has introduced the Kindle and Kindle Fire to the market‚ which allows readers to download books at a lower cost and with ease. Several e-readers and e-book devices

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    The future of Barnes & Noble booksellers is questionable. They are facing several pressing issues that must be dealt with delicately and efficiently. As highlighted in the first paper‚ a major problem for Barnes & Noble is their declining profits caused by decreasing sales of physical books and printed information. Another issue affecting the success of their future is the lack of organization and ability to make decisions of the top management. In my opinion‚ the issue of their aging technology

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    Msc. Management (FT) Strategic Management (2007) Assignment Case Analysis: Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com Answer all three questions. All questions carry equal marks. Q1. Based on your own experience of traditional bookselling and your exploration of online bookselling‚ compare willingness-to-pay for books supplied by these two business models. In the US‚ the traditional bookselling had a market of about 26 million dollars in the year 1996 and had grown to about 33 million

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    Ethics and Compliance / Strategic Planning - Barnes and Noble Inc. Gary Myerscough‚ Donna Williams‚ Lilly Sirju‚ Shelae Watkins‚ Garry Frazier Fin 370 March 6‚ 2013 Kristina Kopec Ethics and Compliance/ Strategic Planning - Barnes and Noble Inc. Barnes & Noble Inc. is the world’s largest bookstore and a publicly traded company listed on the NYSE under the symbol "BKS." Barnes & Noble.com leverages the power of the Barnes & Noble brand to offer online customers the Web ’s

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    Strategic Analysis: Barnes & Noble Executive Summary Barnes & Noble is a key player in the Book Retail Industry. This mature industry has been experiencing slow growth over the last several years‚ much slower than overall retail sales. Barriers to entry into this industry are quite high‚ and suppliers have modest influence over booksellers. The introduction of the Internet has brought about many changes to this industry. It has increased rivalry‚ buyer power‚ and substitutes. Spending time

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    Executive Summary Barnes and Noble is the market leader in the bookstore industry. They have grown their business during tough economic times and have adapted well to the changing consumer demands as technology has advanced. By continuing to enhance their competitive strategy to align themselves with market demands‚ Barnes and Noble‚ with its multi-channel distribution platform‚ will continue to have success in the coming years as competition will feel the pressures of increasing digital mediums

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    similar service at a cheaper price‚ which in fact they do with their B&N Membership discounts! Also compare the forecast long-run cost position of a successful online bookseller to Barnes and Noble’s traditional business model. (Assume that Exhibits 4 and 7 in the case reflect average discounts of 10% off list price for Barnes & Noble’s traditional bookstores and 25% off list for the online bookseller.) In the short-run we typically focus on marginal costs that a business has to provide just the next

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    Barnes & Noble Interim Report One of the most popular leisure activities in the world is reading.  The reading industry is a multi-billion dollar industry‚ and Barnes & Noble is no small player.  Primarily a retail business‚ New York-based Barnes & Noble has cemented themselves as a pillar of strength in the industry by operating over 1300 retail stores in the United States.  More recently‚ they have entered the technology field as the reading industry moved more towards digital media

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