"book retail" is a perfectly valid phrase in written English.
It means the business of buying and selling books. For example, you could say "The family business is book retail, so they specialize in hard-to-find editions."
"Debut fiction is the bravest, most exciting and purest form of the art, but today's forces in book retail are lethal to new talent.
The recession has been tough on all booksellers (Barnes & Noble's tight spot last year brought on many of the same reflections about the state of book retail) but the growth of digital reading has not been equally hard on everyone.
But the new Explorer has a sticker price of more than $30,000, while the Kelly Blue Book retail value for the 10-year-old model is about $8,100.
In a recent phone interview, Riggio said he believes that the biggest shift in the book retail business (besides the one caused by the Internet and Amazon) was fundamentally demographic.
For example, the following information, which is very instructive about what was really going on at Washington Mutual, was provided to the author, and, it was largely ignored in the book: Retail Banking was Washington Mutual's largest and most important business while residential lending was a smaller and declining part of the company's business beginning in 2004.
In short, it's the hipsterization of book retail.
Unlike Tower Records, Amazon is exclusively a web-based book retailer that has gained vast experience tackling book retailing Goliath Barnes & Noble.
Online book retailing is no longer a mere threat.
Bertelsmann failed to notice how much of a threat it posed to the book retailing business.
"We had tremendous discussion about book retailing on the Internet," says Mr Middelhoff.
That was a point the company missed when book retailing developed on the Internet, undermining Bertelsmann's book-club business.
