This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.
The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.
So simple yet…
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and
This is Ghostie. He is a stray #cat, and it took a year to get him to trust us enough to come inside out of the cold.
Researchers have patented a new method of developing vaccines in the field.
A swab from an infected patient is introduced to a syringe along with chemicals that damage the microbes when exposed to sunlight, and the inactivated microbes are injected through a filter.
US Patent 11529153 (Univ. of Washington and Seattle Children's Hosp.)
Application published here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220054149A1/en
Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland says he has a "serious but curable form of cancer." The House January 6 committee member will begin outpatient treatment. https://cnn.it/3jEJlEU
How many days till pitchers & catchers report? #baseball #MastodonBaseball #HotStove #Betts This many:
I will be looking forward to new matches with all those that received DNA kits for Christmas. #genealogy #Geneadons #dna #ChristmasInJanuary
sometimes i look outside and i am pretty sure i live on Ferenginar.
BREAKING: At least 25 deaths now attributed to Buffalo blizzard, the city's worst storm in decades: https://bit.ly/3hQmZPZ by @sarahkaplan48@twitter.com
Nickelodeon, please start airing #baseball broadcasts.
The latest on the Buffalo blizzard: Death toll rises to 7. https://bit.ly/3hKcRZi
RT @NWSBUFFALO@twitter.com
So what does "zero mile" visibility look like? Well, here's a spectacular view of our parking lot near the airport. Yes, there are cars parked just a few feet away.
We don't even want to be parked in it, you *definitely* don't want to be driving in it. Seriously. https://twitter.com/NWSBUFFALO/status/1606338675180072960
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NWSBUFFALO/status/1606380665838059520
An Iowa sports reporter had to cover a snowstorm. It went how you’d expect: https://bit.ly/3WIhGAP By @spencernusbaum_@twitter.com