Bookstores

I interviewed two bookstore members: Dawn McIntosh, Director of Marauder Bookstore and JoAnn Coston, book buyer. The first interview was with Dawn McIntosh. I asked her few important questions regarding the textbook business, and she thoroughly answered by stating how the book store struggles to maintain…

Wednesday night in the middle of December when I was wandering downtown after a short guitar lesson. To avoid the cold wind, I stumbled into an old, small bookstore where most of the books they sold were used. Being an eighth grader who did not like to read, I leaned against the wall by the door waiting for my mom to pick me up. The owner of the bookstore addressed me asking if I needed any help looking for a book. I politely declined and told him I wasn’t much of a reader. The tall, big-boned…

a days where I would spend my time at my nearby bookstore and browse their selections. When I worked at the university bookstore, I felt comfortable and confident in my performance because of the leadership and system implemented. No matter if someone has worked at a bookstore or not, they have come across a bookstore for whatever reason. In addition to working at the Barnes & Noble College branch, I often find myself shopping at my local bookstore. I consider myself to be a fan and loyal…

stores all across the country. They stock over 1 million titles for immediate delivery and they claim to have more titles than any other bookstore. The birth of the Internet shook the retail book market causing a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s. Barnes & Noble stands as America's last remaining national bookstore chain, although it had progressively closed many of its retail stores to reduce overhead and increase profitability.…

identified is at a bookstore. The problem identified is that there is variation in the sales (in $1000s) relative to the number of sales persons. However, this is not true at all cases. Hence, the bookstore faces problem of relatively lower sales even with a higher number of sales persons and relatively good sales with an average lower number of sales persons. The bookstore requires to know if the two factors are related. Management problem to hypothesis assumption The bookstore management…

the company opens a café in its store due to the fact that it would increase its already large customer base. In this recommendation it is said that the café could be opened in the children's book section and it is assumed that it will empower the bookstore to against a business competitor that recently opened its own café. Although the expected results of this recommendation could be achieved, there are some presuppositions that should be re-examined in order to enrsure that this recommendation…

College campus in Owatonna. We'd all been there before to create our schedule for the upcoming semester. The three of us walked through the doors and into the bookstore. Usually when I hear the word “bookstore” I get excited, but I knew this bookstore was going to be very different from the bookstores I was used to. As we walked into the bookstore, there were two ladies behind the desk making small talk. “Can you believe it's already August?” exclaimed the middle-aged woman who was to my left.…

continuously impressed me with her performance and interaction with our customers. She quickly grew in her position to become a seasonal employee. Before long, Andrea willingly accepted new duties and offered to help wherever she could. UCF Rosen College Bookstore…

Enter Lenny, his protégé who, according to the book, will take over the bookstore and get The Pinch published. It appears that Lenny has gotten by through life by making very little effort and is working in the bookstore to bide his time until he is drafted. He is practically a squatter, and deals drugs on the side; otherwise he would have no social life to mention. Lenny appears throughout the book at the wrong place at the wrong time. He manages to find himself, during an errand, in the…

24-Hour Bookstore by Robert Sloan, the rapid change in technology is shown as both a positive and negative development. It is up to individuals to decide if they would rather adapt to change, or neglect it. Characters such as Penumbra decide to adapt to the change, when he slowly transitions his way of doing things differently to stay up to date. However, Corvina refuses to adapt with the change taking place, when he is determined…