With a renewed focus on selling books instead of lots of other stuff, and buoyed by an increase in readers during the pandemic, Barnes & Noble opened nearly 60 stores around the country last year ...
Waterstones was sold to Elliott, the private equity group, in 2018 by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, with Barnes & Noble, the larger US business, acquired by the same investment management firm ...
Barnes & Noble will be returning this spring ... confirmed that the country’s largest book retailer plans to open a new Naperville store in the former Pottery Barn space just up the street ...