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Yet Barnes & Noble has found a way to adapt to the punishing bookselling environment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

However, James Daunt, a veteran of the bookselling industry, said he personally did not expect that to happen.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

Lee, meanwhile, was a ratings and bookselling juggernaut.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2024

Feldman and Knowlton, who have no previous bookselling experience, brought one ironclad condition to the negotiation process: “One of the things that attracted us to the place are the people,” Knowlton says.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

The rise of literacy, of the culture of writing and reading and bookselling, had reached a critical stage in the classical period.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro