$5 Bookstore Browsing Fee

A bookstore owner in Portsmouth, NH, arrested Monday for writing bad checks, charged customers a $5 ‘browsing fee’ for the privilege of looking at books in his Antiquarian bookstore on Route 1. He also assaulted and insulted customers. More at Seacoastonline.
The browsing fee seemed like a crazy business strategy to me — charging people for […]

Filed under: bookselling, bookstore, new england on August 20th, 2008 | No Comments »

Noble Borders?

Book-selling giant Barnes & Noble, Inc. booksellers is considering buying its somewhat smaller rival, book-selling giant Borders Group, per the Wall Street Journal (sub. req), which also commented on the same rumour in November in its Deal Journal. Borders indicated in March that it was struggling and might be willing to be sold. The WSJ […]

Filed under: bookselling, bookstore on May 21st, 2008 | No Comments »