Half Priced Books Case Study

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Half-Priced Books The children’s and young adult’s section at half priced books is not everything that one would expect it to be. Both sections were at the back of the store stuffed into a small corner area which made each section feel very small. There were also more parents in these sections than children, but my description of these areas may explain why this is so. Overall, I felt that these sections were more laid out for adults to buy books for their children than for children to come find the books that they want. Also for both sections staff never came over to see if help was needed to locate a book even when children were present in the areas.
I’ll start off with the children’s section first. The selection available was very large which would interest a large variety of readers. However, the books were sorted using a variety of ways including genre, author, and level right next to each other. This would be fine if the labels were larger to help children realize when the books are sorted differently. One thing I did notice is there was a very tiny section of nonfiction books for this section compared to several shelves full of fiction books. There is also a problem with the shelves as there were shelves that not even myself as an adult could reach or read the titles of the books. I can only imagine how this might be a very large challenge for children in finding a book they want. The
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Compared to Half Priced Books, the sections at Barnes and Noble were much better laid out and definitely were more appropriate for both children and young adults. The staff here really took care of children and young adults. Several time during my observation of these sections staff came up to me asking if I needed help finding a particular book or genre of book. The children’s section was located at the back of the store and the young adult section at the front of the

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