Tuesday, March 5, 2013

What Bookstore Closings Mean for Niche Magazines

First Borders goes away, and now Barnes & Noble has said it would close one-third of its stores over the next decade, or about 20 locations per year. While it's not good news for print books, there’s another casualty: magazines, especially niche titles, given bookstores were the fourth-biggest retail category for single-copy sales in 2011.