"If I were in their shoes, I would deepen the commitment to a broader stock of books, to displaying and promoting books from small presses and university presses. They should also be more involved with local schools and libraries. They may have to run fewer, smaller stores, but that's how to do it. There is absolutely a place for them if they embrace the commitment to books and ideas. But if they are a profit first, general retailer, then I don't think there is a place for them."
--Praveen Madan, president of Kepler's Books, Menlo Park, Calif. and co-owner of the Booksmith, San Francisco, in a Wall Street Journal article polling a "group of leading writers, retailers and agents on what they would do if they ran Barnes & Noble"
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