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I'm still being haunted by this Barnes & Noble article and everyone praising the new policy changes so I just wanted to share another piece about it

This one is about the authors. because no one loves books and readers more than authors. especially not the CEO of Barnes & Noble.

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Barnes & Noble’s New Policy Harms Authors | Turning Pages

Following a Twitter controversy, readers and authors were shocked to discover that Barnes and Noble has a new nationwide policy. Only the top 1-2 children's books per publisher per season will be sold in stores.
Marie Kester (Turning Pages)
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Chell
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This is so wild to me because the only reason I like Barnes & Noble's is to be able to find new books in store. But this makes me just not want to go to their store ever again.
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amanda πŸ“š bookishbrews.com
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I'm not really interested in articles from the business perspective because business never has the people in mind. i'm always interested in the perspective of the people so here's just one article about the authors.
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It's not fair to say that "businesses never have the people in mind" and it's not true. B&N is in emergency crisis mode right now. There is a real risk that B&N won't exist as a company in 2024. Think about all the employees up and down the company that will be impacted by that.

And think about the marginalized authors that will now be even more vulnerable to the whims of Amazon's black-box algorithms than they already are.

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