Leonard Riggio, who has died aged 83, bought a struggling Manhattan bookshop called Barnes & Noble in 1971 with a ...

Leonard Riggio, who has died aged 83, bought a struggling Manhattan bookshop called Barnes & Noble in 1971 with a $1.2 ...

Barnes and Noble announced a new coloured variant of their latest generation tablet, the Nook Tablet 9. This model is called ...

His immediate response was to try to innovate, expanding into games and toys and spending heavily on developing Barnes & Noble’s own e-reader, the Nook, to compete with Amazon’s Kindle.

Barnes & Noble lost more than a billion dollars on its Nook e-reader, introduced as a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle. As its fortunes grew more precarious, Barnes & Noble found itself ...

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 eBook market.

Barnes & Noble launched a website to sell books online, created a self-publishing platform and put out its own e-reader, the Nook. But digital sales lagged, and by 2019 the company had reportedly ...

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 ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Leonard Riggio, chairman of Barnes and Noble, arrives at a book store in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 12 ...

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.