The article, “Barnes & Noble has been destroyed by Amazon” discusses how Barnes and Noble has been losing money over the past few years and the role that Amazon has played in its difficulties. Barnes and Noble’s sales have recently fallen again while its long term debt has tripled over the past year. Along with all of this, shares in the company have plummeted dramatically. It has struggled to keep up with Amazon, as its Nook e-reader, has not been successful and its online sales have dropped. In addition Barnes and Noble has had four different CEOs in five years which has made the company even more shaky and less likely to be able to recover.…
So why the increase in sales? Roediger believes it’s because of used book stores. Roediger states that a student will purchase a brand new book and instead of keeping it, they will take it back to the book store and sell it. The book store then buys the book back for a percentage less than the original price and then resells the book at an inflated price. When the same book is purchased again the book store gets all of the profits.…
“The organized used book market represents the great change in the landscape of higher education publishing” (Roediger, Henry L., III. “Why are Textbooks So Expensive?” Back to the Lake, edited by Thomas Cooley, 3rd Ed. , Norton, 2015, pp. 569-74). “The revenue from the global book publishing market is forecast to slightly increase in the coming years, growing from around 113 billion U.S. dollars in 2015 to about 123 billion U.S. dollars by 2020” (Statistics and Facts on the U.S. Book Industry, Statista, 2015, www.statista.com/topics/1177/book-market/).…
In the article “It’s Time To Say Goodbye to Books,” by Tony Gates, the author persuades the audience how books printed on paper are no longer socially responsible. To develop his argument, the author uses a delayed thesis and literary allusion. He includes these rhetorical devices in order to show the audience how books are not as socially responsible as it was in the past.…
Once the book is at the retailer the customer has the opportunity to buy the book. Finally after the book is sold, the retailer, the author, and the publisher each get…
Is Higher Education Worth The Price? In this response paper I will mainly response to two articles, they are Are College Worth the Price of Admission? By Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, and Why Do You Think They’re Called For-Profit Colleges? By Kevin Carey.…
Books cost a lot now-a-days and so do the supplies. Just one new book can cost up to one hundred and seventy-five dollars to two hundred dollars. Even used and rented books can cost just as much money as a new…
College textbooks cost a fortune, and it stockpiles onto the already trifling cost. Keep in mind that you won’t use the textbook forever, you’ll be done with it once the course is over. The cost of buying textbooks can add up to about $1,000 a year or more. That’s not all, though. The textbooks keep increasing.…
Main Points The Price of Everything is an unabridged dialogue between a seasoned professor of economics and a passionate college student that takes place as the student decides to stand against corporate greed. One of the overarching themes throughout the book is that even though a company may seek to maximize profits it is by no means malevolent or malicious. In the case of Big Box, it is easy to illustrate them as an evil corporation, capitalizing on the misfortune of others in the wake of a catastrophe. Yet Big Box was the only store in town that was able to provide the goods that people so desperately needed.…
Elementary students switching classes We are going to spill the beans about elementary students switching classes. Students become more responsible and get more exercise. Elementary students should switch classes for all students. Leon Samuels says that Iyan Yale principal at Columbia elementary saves on schools materics.…
With an unknown setup on how they get rid of books once they are outdated, it’s hard to say what happens o old books once they are outdated or worn out(some sources say they sell books, but there isn’t much info on what happens to the old books). With the emerging tablets in the technology world, we will start seeing a lot more e books out there than ever before, possibly making their current business model difficult to continue with. In the present however, to combat some competitors, Chegg is making deals with college books stores to offer their services through campus bookstores. While the bookstores will get some profits from rentals, Chegg will also receive some revenue, as well as expand their presence, become more renowned throughout the nation, and possibly expand their business. Chegg has a few competitors it…
The Library of Congress Cataloging System (LCCS) has long reflected the importance of author’s voice in works of literature by including subheadings such as: Hispanic Americans—fiction; American poetry--Jewish authors; American lesbians--literary collections, etc., while scholarly works of nonfiction, assumed to be impartial, have not been classified in this manner. Therefore, it is not possible to measure who the authors of those works are, and whether, for instance, any of the works located under a particular subject heading were written from non-hegemonic perspectives. Any suggestion that libraries should target the collecting of works by underrepresented authors is immediately countered with criticism that in doing so librarians would be…
Topic: Tablets vs. Textbooks Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience schools should consider using tablets instead of textbooks in K-12 schools. Thesis Statement: Tablets help students learn better than textbooks. I. Introduction A. Attention Material/Credibility Material: According to the FCC, schools spend more than $8 billion dollars on outdated textbooks a year. This has become a major problem.…
Paper or Digital Versions Many do not ponder whether or not we would trade our paper copies of books for digital versions. Yet, this is a topic that should be very relevant in a world where technology can do anything for you. Replacing paper copies of books with digital versions could come with many problems both for the author and the reader, taking away the joy from reading. Apps that sell digital books could lose a lot of money on every book they sell. Not to mention how many problems technology can come with.…
Used paper books are much cheaper then buying a book that is new. Books cost a lot because of the materials needed to be bought in order to make them. When buying a…