The result is stores that are less like cookie-cutter boxes and more akin to independent bookstores — the very businesses Barnes & Noble once devastated before being battered itself by online ...

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.

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 ...

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 online giant launch 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 the ...

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 ...

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 ...