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Uh, where are you seeing "Rust for Rustaceans" and "The Art of 64-Bit Assembly" at a Barnes & Noble? I just wandered into a B&N store in Cupertino after shoppin
by legerdemain 4y ago
Uh, where are you seeing "Rust for Rustaceans" and "The Art of 64-Bit Assembly" at a Barnes & Noble? I just wandered into a B&N store in Cupertino after shopping at a Guitar Center, and their technology section was basically a shelf of Excel guides and XYZ for Dummies.
I'm actually surprired there's a narrative of "B&N is coming back." Their stores, what few times I've had the misfortune of wandering inside in recent years, are still excruciatingly beige, useless, and (in the words of the TLA) "crucifyingly boring."
- pwinnski 4y agoThis is the flip side of the current CEO's focus on letting local stores make their own decisions. When the decisions align with your interests (like my store's excellent manga focus), it's great! When they don't, like your example of the Cupertino store, it's pretty terrible.
- legerdemain 4y agoWhere is your store located?
- pwinnski 4y agoStonebriar Mall in Frisco, Texas.
- jen20 4y agoBoth major B&N stores in Austin have had both of those titles within the last month. They all tend to be relatively overstocked on No Starch Press stuff (not to say they don't produce good books), but understocked on basically anything else. The best I've encountered is Foyles in London, though even that had cut back substantially prior to the pandemic when I was last there.