The plot thickens in the bid to buy Barnes & Noble
Early this week, we wrote that “Elliott Management, has purchased the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain for ‘roughly $683 million, including debt,’ according to Lauren Hirsch for CNBC.” Elliott Management, most notably, is… Read more »
Len Riggio, who has fired four CEOs in five years, denies that instability in corporate leadership has hurt Barnes and Noble
It’s been almost two months since Barnes and Noble fired CEO Demos Parneros. At the time, details on the ouster were scarce, but in late-August, Parneros filed a lawsuit against… Read more »
What does DC’s Amazon store have that Politics and Prose doesn’t? Not much worth mentioning.
It’s been a big week, in a big year, of watching, waiting, and wondering about the fate of Barnes and Noble. On Monday, David Leonhardt published an op-ed in the New York Times… Read more »
Presenting… the Barnes and Noble Book Club!
Yesterday, we wrote about what looks like a Barnes-and-Noble-to-Amazon cloning program the country’s beleaguered largest bookselling chain is beginning to implement. Now, as Jim Milliot writes in Publishers Weekly, B&N has announced its plans to stir in… Read more »
Barnes and Noble does its best Amazon impression in turnaround plan
“Fiscal years,” “prototype stores,” and “omnichannel sales.” The presence of these words—somehow mind-numbingly boring and eye-rollingly buzzy at the same time—signals to me, “We’re talking about Amazon here, gang!” Close… but not quite.… Read more »
Barnes & Noble employees show up for their jobs only to learn they now have no jobs
As has been increasingly reported over the last few years, sales at Barnes & Noble are declining and the US’s largest chain bookstore is seemingly in trouble. And the latest… Read more »
A bunch of third-graders save their local Barnes & Noble from closing, are heroes
The kids are alright. Third graders at Tomoka Elementary School in Ormond Beach, Florida have saved the Barnes & Noble in Daytona Beach from closing by sending an impassioned letter to B&N… Read more »
Weed Wish You A Merry Christmas: A Holiday Gift Guide
Let’s face it: Weed is big business. And while it’s perhaps lost some of its edge, the upside is that it’s no longer hard to shop for the smoker in your… Read more »
Moon Palace III: Journey to the Booze
Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is moving — again! As you may recall, the beloved indie in the city’s Longfellow neighborhood moved to their current Minnehaha Street address just last year, in… Read more »
Noëlle Santos is bringing a goddamn bookstore to the Bronx
When the Co-op City Barnes and Noble first announced that it was going to shut its doors and leave the Bronx without a general interest bookstore, we did what we… Read more »