Hanks, who put Meg Ryan’s character, a beloved independent bookseller in Manhattan, out of business.
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The feeling was captured in the 1998 movie “You’ve Got Mail.” Co-written and directed by Nora Ephron, the film centered on the owner of a major bookstore chain, played by Mr. Daunt said, “but it’s been tremendous.” The enemy of my enemy is my friendįor many years, hostility toward Barnes & Noble from independent bookstores was so potent, it made even Tom Hanks a believable, if charming, villain. “I would never have predicted it at the outset of the year,” Mr. The growth came the old-fashioned way, said James Daunt, the company’s chief executive: by selling books, which were up 14 percent. Many of the chain’s downtown stores in urban areas are still underperforming because of a paucity of tourists and office workers.ĭespite all this, sales in Barnes & Noble stores were up 3 percent last year over their prepandemic performance in 2019. And in December, just as the Christmas shopping season arrived, Omicron rolled in. For nearly two years, there were no readings or author signings in most of its stores. The pandemic tossed substantial roadblocks in Barnes & Noble’s way. “There’s a real fear that without this book chain, the print business would be way off.” “It would be a disaster if they went out of business,” said Jane Dystel, a literary agent with clients including Colleen Hoover, who has four books on this week’s New York Times best-seller list. Its unique role in the book ecosystem, where it helps readers discover new titles and publishers stay invested in physical stores, makes it an essential anchor in a world upended by online sales and a much larger player: Amazon. Today, virtually the entire publishing industry is rooting for Barnes & Noble - including most independent booksellers. In the past, the book-selling empire, with 600 outposts across all 50 states, was seen by many readers, writers and book lovers as strong-arming publishers and gobbling up independent stores in its quest for market share. After years on the decline, Barnes & Noble’s sales are up, its costs are down - and the same people who for decades saw the superchain as a supervillain are celebrating its success.
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