I mean it in the Horatio Alger sense. Barnes & Noble began to take a revenue hit from increased online competition and its failed Nook e-reading device venture in the late 2010s. Riggio sold the ...

The chain expanded its selection of books to include manga, graphic novels, and hobby games as it competed with Amazon for online sales in 1995. Barnes & Noble is now one of the largest global ...

Barnes & Noble’s Book Haul sale is back, bringing with it huge discounts on hundreds of books. Running through Sept. 2, the sale features 50% off tons of titles, including some of our favorite ...

A. Messerschmidt/Getty Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of bookstore chain Barnes & Noble, has died at age 83. A representative for Riggio confirmed his death on Aug. 27 to PEOPLE.

The founder of the bookselling giant Barnes and Noble Leonard Riggio has died aged 83, after battling with Alzheimer’s disease. Riggio was born in Manhattan’s Little Italy before spending his ...

His brother Stephen served as vice chairman and oversaw the online business, launched in 1997; his brother Vincent, known as Jimi, worked at a trucking company that shipped Barnes & Noble’s books.

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Barnes & Noble Education Inc. BNED) on Tuesday reported a loss of $99.5 million in its fiscal first quarter. The Basking Ridge, New Jersey-based company said it had a ...

In time, as Amazon and other digital stores made it possible for customers to order books with ... digital world. Barnes & Noble launched a website to sell books online, created a self-publishing ...

Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country's most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the ...

In the 1990s, Barnes & Noble turned their attention to the changing landscape of the bookstore industry by investing in e-commerce. In 1997, the store launched their online store and entered the ...

The online giant launched in 1995 by Jeff Bezos gained business throughout the 2000s and by the early 2010s had displaced Barnes & Noble through such innovations as the Kindle e-book reader and ...