Barnes and Noble Revised opinion

Enjoy B&N while you can...Amazon is taking them apart and they aren't going to survive without a drastic change in their business model (i.e. more on-line, less brick & mortar...).

Totally agree that Amazon is eating them for lunch. But come on Mike. You go to B&N, buy a cup of coffee (or not), read the mag 8X per year and put it back on the shelf. Not good for B&N, CTT OR ANY MAGAZINE PUBLISHER.

 

IMO, if you get value, you should support them.

 

Gerry

I didn't see any part where Mike says he reads the magazine but does not buy it. 

ok So My wife does have me purge every few years.  Yes I do Buy them.  I would like to keep the focus on this thread on the availability of the magazines, not on how one seller is eating up or burying another one. 

My local B&N sells CTT, OGR, Model Railroader, Model Railroad Craftsman, Garden Railroads, Model Rail, Hornby, and at least one or two more. I buy Model Railroader, Model Rail, and Hornby. Love the British mags.

No disappointment here....I happen to like the British magazines. They're superb in terms of production quality and content. Of course, it helps if you have an interest in foreign railways as I do. I've dropped as much as $35 on foreign railway magazines in a single trip to Barnes & Noble. I must not be the only one buying them as the foreign titles seem to sell out each month. Now I have to see if they can get the Italian magazine Tutto Treno for me.

 

Bob

Mike, you're lucky you still have a Barnes & Nobles to graze at. The only one we had in San Antonio closed it's doors over 6 months ago.

Same here.  Mine seems to carry a good stock of Model RR magazines.  OGR, CTT, and various others in other scales.

B&N online is often cheaper (slightly) than Amazon. Even cheaper still if you use a membership card.

Now OGR is my staple, but I am sorry, a foreign rag for $8.99 over CTT? 

Okay, I understand, but...

 

I did buy it

That's the problem right there.  If you don't like what they've done, don't support it with your money.

Totally agree that Amazon is eating them for lunch.

 

Well that's news to Microsoft who invested big time in the B&N Android NOOK technology.

If Barnes & Noble is suffering, they won't get any sympathy from me:  They have put most of the small privately-owned bookstores out of business.

I purchased my Nook after Memorial Day and I LOVE IT to read the Forum; I started out reading this thread on the Nook, now jumped over to the PC to type. The Nook is better to watch the Videos on and pictures you can zoom in and out. Did I say I LOVE IT, plus it is easy to have anywhere with WIFI [like at work where we are encouraged not to use streaming but for business]. Another use I have for it is I have about five versions of the Bible on it [I'm an adult SS teacher] I use for cross reference, sure is light weight when traveling. I am an Elder at church also and Clerk of Session [Session=governing body] so I have our "Book of Order" on it to carry to meetings. Well enough praise for the Nook. 

 

 That said I was also surprised last night when I went to B&N, I had kept an eye on several books that were on Quick Sale "Valley Forge" and "Days of Infamy" by Newt Gingrich and they were gone [not that I expected them to stay forever]. I was able to get "To Try Men's Souls" though. Are these books in any of the stores in the northeast please post. So if you see something on Quick Sale gab it while you can.

 

Back to the original thread, here I used to get OGR at B&N then they stopped carrying it, I asked for it and it was brought back at the store less than 2 miles from my home, by that time I have gotten a subscription to OGR to make I would get it.

 

Redball

It's always irked me to see folks reading books and magazines in a book store.

 

They set the conditions for this type of behaviour, however, when they design a bookstore that encourages folks to browse and hang out, when they put coffee shops in the stores and put in big comfy chairs and sofas. 

 

Jim

I'm with you on this.  They put my 100+ year-old college co-op bookstore out of business.

 

I go for the pricey coffee and tasty key lime tarts at the cafe.  And the only thing I like in the store are the foreign publications, since they're tough to find anywhere else, even in New York.

I happen to really like Model Rail and Hornby Magazine. I think the modeling shown is consistently good and often much better than I see in other magazines. I definitly always am learning some new tricks and find what is done in small areas inspiring.  I don't have a 30x 60 ft space to work in.

I like to keep an open mind. I like trains period. One of my favorite RRs is in India. I like British, German, Japanese and North American trains. The best train I have ever ridden is a toss between the TGV and the trip around Lake Geneva and through the Swiss Alps.

Ok so after spending yesterday reading Model Rail, I have to admit I really enjoyed the magazine and the british perspective of model railroading.  I have come to the conclusion that if I were starting today I would have a hard time choosing between O and HO and potentially S based upon what MTH will do with their new S product line.  The MTH HO trains are amazing, and in many ways the options and capabilities rival what they have done with O scale.   The europeans have always had a huge variety of trains, accessories, etc, but now I am truly getting a new perspective of how wide the variety and quality of their models and layouts are.  I spoke with the manager at the B&N today and she will be getting CTT back, but I am going to subscribe to all the mags and just get them at home.

Best rgds, SZ  [ who realizes many don't have the 'LHS choice' ]

In my experience most of the privately-owned bookstores deserved their fate. Several years ago I need a book published in Switzerland and in German. The privately-owned bookstore, now gone, wanted a small fortune to order the book, but then decided they couldn't help me because it required a purchase out of the country. Barnes & Noble had no trouble researching the book and had it in my hands in less than week.

 

What killed small bookstores was thinking small.

Yes, I suppose we're headed for an all-digital world some day.

Digital is fine for YouTube.....but I love my magazines and want them on paper. When I lost hundreds of magazines to hurricane Danny you'd thought I had lost my trains or something. I tried to salvage some but they were soaked in muddy gasoline water....they were just pulp. Give me paper!!!