A recent article in the New York Times stated that Barnes & Noble is in trouble and we need to help.

If you have been in the book community for some time now you might know that not too long ago people were saying that you needed to support your local independently owned bookstores instead of going to Barnes & Noble.

And while it is still of the utmost importance to support your local booksellers, Barnes & Noble is now in need of your help as well. Nook and online sales have declined and many stores have had to close their doors, and more closures are sure to happen.

Barnes & Noble is a major asset to the book-sellers community but it is now being overtaken by sites such as Amazon. There are now few rules that put restrictions on monopolies and because of this Amazon is able to mark books at deceptively low prices which ends up hurting the book industry as a whole and making it a hard field to get into.

Barnes & Noble is the face of the book industry in a way and if it were to go under it would cause some major damage to the book industry as a whole.

This is just a summary of the event mentioned in the NY Times article and I highly suggested you read that for more in-depth information. I simply wanted to provide a quick summary for people to read and to ask you to please support your local Barnes & Noble and keep the book world alive and thriving.

The loss of Barnes & Noble stores around the country would be detrimental to the book industry. We need books. We need Barnes & Noble.