There will still be bookstores. Bookstore companies will become history once the colleges/universities we serve realize they don’t need us like publishers have. The bookstore companies no longer offer value. Publishes will get the schools to switch to digital direct while suppling them low cost loose leaf print versions. Goodbye used books, goodbye to rental and etc...
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RG retired at the end of year and PC is the new CEO.
when will you fire the dear leader ray-he is no gosh darn good-he is just for himself- no feeling for loyal staff employees at remote bookstores- after almost twenty years of loyal hardworking service, gave me just 10 minutes to leave- nothing personal they say, unless it was their jobs on the line of course, then it would have been very personal of course- had to get the money to buy Taylor of course on the bones of low level fulltime employees miniscule paychecks or more accurately health insurance--replaced by a steady turnover of part timers who didn't give a damn about the dying bookstore business- how do you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning working for a president and company like this- I guess many of you do even after reading this-Life goes on, I still wish you good luck ,but when you can, leave!!!! - when your time comes Ray ,I hope they escort you out the door like crap like I was(HR directed)- I loved my job and still miss it after 2 years(must be something wrong with me) - what a waist of the best years of my life- how humiliating.
when will get rid of ray? - he is no gosh darn good- just for himself- no feeling for loyal staff employees at remote bookstores- after almost twenty years of loyal service- gave me ten minutes to leave-- told me it was nothing personal- just decided to eliminate fulltime job, so he could buy Taylor- hired a part time employee the next day - rot in hell while you counting your year end bonus ray!!!
ebooks adoption has been more rejection than adoption. At some point, ebooks may be adopted, but that time isen't now (remember how "laser disks" meant LPs were dead. That never happened. In fact, by the time the market adopted CD and DVD, media itself was doomed.
However, national bookstore chains offer little in value to campuses. They've paid the campus, in the past, so students would be their captive market. The lease store would extract used books and control education materials. Without text, course materials, and buy back, the model is dead. It's only a matter of time before faculty and staff realize this.
I don't think this will work for all classes, what about English & literature classes? Faculty would have to change their curriculum drastically which won't happen.