Tag: barnes and noble

• Well Finally!

  It’s taken me more than a year. And longer than that if you count more than just when I originally promised what I am about to say. Anyway, as of Saturday, July 1st, I have a new book available! Varied Degrees of Darkness is my latest book of collected poems, the second I have published…

  Jeremy C Kester

  July 3, 2023

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• Hard to Care

  

  It’s getting very hard to care about Barnes & Noble failing. I love books. As a reader and a writer. So in general I don’t want to see anything supporting that to fail. But much as with a lot of the way publishers treat writers, Barnes & Noble is treating everyone poorly, except their executives.…

  Jeremy C Kester

  February 15, 2018

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• How I Would Start to Fix Barnes and Noble

  They announced more losses at Barnes and Noble. And of course the suggested plans of actions seem like pages from the standard playbooks of business (mainly protect the higher-ups salaries) without doing a damn thing to really move the needle. It feels like the 4th quarter with only a few seconds left and the whole…

  Jeremy C Kester

  December 1, 2017

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