The Shocking Fall of a 197-Year-Old Giant: What Really Happened to Baker & Taylor, the Library’s Lifeline?
Imagine a titan of the book world, standing tall since 1828, suddenly folding its towering presence. Baker & Taylor, once the colossal book supplier for libraries and print-on-demand publishers, is shutting its doors by year’s end. Libraries now scramble like lost readers hunting for their next chapter supplier, and publishers left in limbo over print-on-demand deals find themselves in quite the mess. What went wrong for this 197-year-old giant—did they simply miss the plot in a story about changing times and shifting markets? It seems that courting libraries for sales may now be a losing strategy, overshadowed by giants like Amazon. And while close to 1,500 employees face the heartbreak of sudden unemployment, the industry at large is left questioning what this means for the future of book distribution and the very heart of libraries themselves. Curious about how this seismic shift unfolded, and if anyone really saw it coming? LEARN MORE.
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