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Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon: Why Physical Bookstores Survived the Internet
Barnes & Noble was supposed to be dead by 2015. Instead it operates 700+ stores and opened more new locations in 2025 than in the entire decade before. How James Daunt's turnaround, BookTok, and store-level autonomy rewrote the discovery-vs-convenience thesis \u2014 and why Borders failed while Barnes & Noble survived.