Books & Reading & Bookstores Newsletter # 1&2

Author

Raul Pavel
February 09, 2025

  1. Identifying key factors affecting consumer purchase behavior in an online shopping context

    This study investigated the relationship between various characteristics of online shopping and consumer purchase behavior.

  2. The Dilemma of Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores: An Exploration of Trends, Consumer Motives and Perceptions, and Possible Paths to Sustainability

    This study explores how digitalization has impacted brick-and-mortar bookstores as well as book consumers’ motives and perceptions in China.

  3. Transitions towards omni-channel retailing strategies: a business model perspective

    The findings present empirical insights about different strategic and Business Model approaches to omni-channel retailing and highlight examples of pioneering retailers from the Italian market

  4. Select, Display, and Sell

    Bookshops are one of the most visible places for books in public space. No bookshop can ever offer every book available; rather
    it is in its selection that each bookshop is unique. Value no longer resides in access, but in curation—in selecting and arranging. The article argues that curating practices in bookshops can be mapped
    from four main aspects: space, selection, display, and experience.

Podcasts

A Better Way to Buy Books.  A Conversation with Andy Hunter, Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org 

Books

Gutenberg parenthesis, Jeff Jarvis

The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present - and draws out lessons for the age to come.

Science of reading, Adrian Johns

This book tells for the first time the story of how American scientists and others have sought to understand reading, and, by understanding it, to improve how people do it.

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