PREORDER SALE!!! If you were planning on picking up Warriors vol 1., BN is doing a promotional 25% discount until Friday for preorders!

Me and @smgoetter ‘s other upcoming release, Bitsy and Boozle Tell a Story, is also on BN preorder sale if you prefer something more educational fantasy meta-narrative flavored.

(Warriors comes out in July and Bitsy and Boozle comes out in September)

hey gang, just so you know, half price on all hardcovers at Barnes and Noble 26 and 27th of December. Yes that includes special edition classics, that includes dnd books, that includes new hardcovers, that includes signed books, this includes cookbooks, and I’m pretty sure it includes kids picture books. Save money on books!

-with love, your local broke barnes and noble employee

reasons why it's very frustrating to be someone who wants to work in a creative industry right now:

warner brothers/hbo/discovery decided to scrap the batgirl movie in post-production before anyone outside of its test audiences could actually see the film

the same company also decided to remove 36 titles from its streaming platform hbo max, several of which were hbo max originals and can no longer be viewed outside of pirating sites, which means the creators will no longer be able to get paid for their work

simon & schuster and penguin random house are in the process of merging. if the DOJ trial doesn't stop the merger, we're going down from having a big five to a big four in the publisher world, with the two of the biggest publishing houses merging.

Barnes & Noble recently decided to stop stocking new middle school books unless they know they're going to be major bestsellers, which multiple new authors didn't find out until weeks before their debuts. B&N accounts for a large chunk of publishing sales for said authors, and limiting what books are available there means debuting authors are mostly screwed unless they put together a massive marketing campaign on their own.

I walked into Barnes & Noble to see that Prince Hamlet was the cashier and he was trying to sell his autobiography in play form, Hamlet. He didn’t know who Shakespeare is.

QUICK READS? FOR WHO?

Has this been done yet

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen at barnes & noble 😭💀

231110 Barnes & Noble's Instagram Reel

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JUNG KOOK dropped by Barnes & Noble - Fifth Ave to check out the Barnes & Noble exclusive edition of his new album GOLDEN. Be sure to swing by to get your copy! *Signed copies are not available

Online shopping (1999)

Source: Youtube/ Vampire Robot

I haven’t been to Barnes and Noble in person for almost two years. I went with my mom last night to one. I couldn’t help but notice the abundance of occult and witchcraft in every single section of the re-organized store, in every single genre, displayed upon the smaller tables, and even columns. It shouldn’t surprise me with how people are in world now, but it was still a surprise. I’ll pray for them.

currently thinking abt this massive tom of finland art book at barnes and noble that cost $100

shrinkyclinks my beloved

i’m a bookseller so let’s analyze the books that asoiaf characters would probably be into in my expert opinion

sansa: easy answer, mass-market bodice rippers. true answer, horror. she is a vc andrews girly but she hates stephen king. also she probably read a bunch of colleen hoover at a very formative age and it fucked up her idea of healthy relationships.

jon: manga. i do not know jack or shit about manga but i do know he’d probably like that berserk one or whatever the fuck it’s called. he’s emo. nobody understands him. you get it. so on and so forth.

theon: he doesn’t read but he does go back into the kids department and stick gum in the pages of the i survived books. sometimes if he’s feeling really bold he’ll put his number in between the pages of novels that he thinks are for smart people. his concept of high lit is not very developed so it’s sort of a toss-up as to the books he does this to. they’ve found his number in the brothers karamazov and a taylor jenkins reid novel on the same day.

dany: ya dystopia. you KNOW she would have been so into the maze runner and divergent. somebody let this child have a hunger games phase dear lord.

arya: her idol growing up was junie b jones. she was obsessed with the boxcar children and when she was 7 she tried to run away but to her extreme dismay she couldn’t find a boxcar so she settled for an underpass frequented by various delinquents, vagabonds, etc. they unionized to get her back home and cat didn’t let her outside for a year. immediately after she was ungrounded she ran away again to murder pigeons en masse because she had just read wringer by jerry spinelli and took away the wrong message. now she just reads fencing instructional books. also a warrior cats kid.