Barnes & Noble Yanks DC Comics From Stores

[idodo35]

so... they are going to throw away incom (that will surely come from selling DC novels) because DC went ahead and did something that helps them (DC) and the competition (amazon) while not hurting barnes and novels at all...
well thats just plain stupid...

 

[zombie711]

Does this mean they will have more marvel and image comics cuz Im down with that, if thats the case.

 

[The Great JT]

And once again, I have to ask why they don't have supermarkets stock some comics.

 

[ANImaniac89]

Dammit I miss Borders now.
This utterly sucks, I really only buy Trades of DC and Vertigo books.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

(Face palm) I hate big businesses. I really do. Now what am I gonna buy when I got to Barnes and Nobles?! ...Oh wait.

 

[BgRdMchne]

Barnes & Noble Yanks DC Comics From Stores


[O]ur promise to Barnes & Noble customers [is] to make available any book, anywhere, anytime.


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So let's make less books available to our customers.

Makes a lot of sense, don't it?

 

[KDR_11k]

Is B&N big enough to make this an antitrust issue?

 

[Zach of Fables]

Barnes and Noble are just shooting themselves in the foot. The only thing that will come from this is that they will lose money. Still, now I won't feel guilty about reading other comics there without paying for them.

Besides, it was only a matter of time before graphic novels moved to e readers anyway.

 

[laserwulf]

Although I understand B&N's "logic" in this, the heart of the matter is that their retail stores are the -only- advantage they have over Amazon.com, especially now that Borders is out of the picture. B&N should be doing everything they can to attract people to their stores, and regardless of lofty principles, anything that harms their stores is nail in the coffin. If they don't learn from this fiasco, then I have absolutely no sympathy for them.

 

[Fbuh]

So instead of stocking physical copies and making some profit, they've decided not to sell any. Well, I guess that makes sense, if they are trying to boost Kindle sales. Anybody who wants to buy DC now will have to do so digitally, which just means more profit for Amazon. Essentially, their solution is just going to ruin them even more.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

They'll still sell the trade paperbacks, right? Because B&N is the only bookstore left in my town--rest in peace, Boarders--and I do occasionally pick up a Teen Titans or Gotham City Sirens trade paperback.
Just please, for the love of all nerds, don't stop selling manga. I will cry.

 

[SkullKing84]

Seems like a child throwing a tantrum to me.

I 100% agree and extremely saddened by this. In the long run they are just hurting themselves... but not enough that they'll care.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

I prefer Marvel anyway.

 

[BlackWidower]

"We will not stock physical books in our stores if we are not offered the available digital format. To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms and not have the ebook available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime."

Allow me to paraphrase for him.

"Our promise to make available any book, anywhere, anytime, would be undermined if we made this particular book available."

Wait...what?

 

[targren]

\
OT (so I don't get yelled at): Since the agreement with Amazon is only for 4 months, maybe B&N could have waited to see how things went, then got all pissy about it when/if it becomes permanent.

It's for the first four months of them being released. When the vast, vast majority of the copies will be sold. Telling B&N they can maybe have sloppy seconds to that is giving them the second finger.

Agreed that B&N's response loses its punch since they didn't drop it from the website too.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

its going to be funny to see the people say that B&N is acting petty or stupid or whatever when Microsoft did something near the same thing with its XBLA exclusivity (or lack there of) and people seemed to generally greet this as something positive or at least acceptable (if they werent involved in the fanboy wars).

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The only thing I can say is, B&N, I enjoy your stores and while I get the principle of what you're doing and the reasoning why, you may want to be careful of just what bridges you burn. Though you really should either go all in or all out.

Was going to comment on how the XBLA thing got huge negative feedback while this is only getting slight negative feedback. This though sums up my whole point more or less.

 

[emeraldrafael]

its going to be funny to see the people say that B&N is acting petty or stupid or whatever when Microsoft did something near the same thing with its XBLA exclusivity (or lack there of) and people seemed to generally greet this as something positive or at least acceptable (if they werent involved in the fanboy wars).

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The only thing I can say is, B&N, I enjoy your stores and while I get the principle of what you're doing and the reasoning why, you may want to be careful of just what bridges you burn. Though you really should either go all in or all out.

Was going to comment on how the XBLA thing got huge negative feedback while this is only getting slight negative feedback. This though sums up my whole point more or less.

I must have left it early then. when I posted in it, reception wasnt really all that bad.

 

[Saviordd1]

Seems like a child throwing a tantrum to me.

Pretty much this, they didn't get what they want so their gonna start screaming and whining until they do or until everybody loses.

 

[Jazoni89]

All I can say about this is... Wow!

American Bookstores are huge, in the UK they are tiny.