Barnes & Noble - wikipedia Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble, Inc. Type Public Traded as NYSE : BKS S&P 600 Component Predecessor Arthur Hinds & Company Founded 1886 ( 1886 ) ( first book store opened ) New York City, New York, U.S. Founder Charles M. Barnes William Barnes G. Clifford Noble Leonard Riggio Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S., U.S. Number of locations 632 retail stores ( As of July 29, 2017 ) Key people Leonard Riggio ( Chairman ) Demos Parneros ( CEO ) Products Nook SparkNotes Brands Barnes & Noble Booksellers Nook Digital, LLC Sterling Publishing Revenue US $ 4.164 billion ( FY 2016 ) Operating income US $ 14.656 million ( FY 2016 ) Net income US $ - 24.446 million ( FY 2016 ) Total assets US $ 2.013 billion ( FY 2016 ) Total equity US $ 603.510 million ( FY 2016 ) Number of employees 26,000 ( 2017 ) Website www.barnesandnobleinc.com ( corporate site ) www.barnesandnoble.com ( consumer site ) www.nook.com ( consumer site ) Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. Traded as NYSE : BNED S&P 600 Component Website www.barnesandnoble.com Barnes & Noble, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company, the bookseller with the largest number of retail outlets in the United States, and a retailer of content, digital media, and educational products. As of July 29, 2017, the company operates 632 retail stores in all 50 U.S. states. Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores. The company 's headquarters are at 122 Fifth Avenue in New York City. After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble stands alone as the United States ' largest national bookstore chain. Previously, Barnes and Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton Booksellers stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain. The company is known for large retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks coffee and other consumables, from cannolis to spinach and feta pretzels. Most stores sell books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, toys, music, and Nook e ‐ readers and tablets. Contents 1 History 1.1 19th century : Foundations 1.2 20th century : Expansion 1.2. 1 1900 -- 1919 1.2. 2 1920 -- 1939 1.2. 3 1940 -- 1959 1.2. 4 1960 -- 1979 1.2. 5 1980 -- 1999 1.3 21st century : Operating in an electronic environment 1.3. 1 2000s 1.3. 2 2010s 2 Publishing 3 Food service 4 Community involvement 5 Barnes & Noble Nook 6 College bookstores 7 See also 8 References 9 Further reading 10 External links History 19th century : foundations Clifford Noble in 1893 Although the flagship store once featured the motto `` founded in 1873, '' the C.M. Barnes - Wilcox Company never had any connection to Barnes & Noble other than the fact that both were partly owned ( at different times ) by William Barnes. Barnes & Noble originated in 1886 with a bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, located in the Cooper Union Building in New York City. In the fall of 1886, Gilbert Clifford Noble, a then - recent Harvard graduate from Westfield, Massachusetts, was hired to work there as a clerk. In 1894, Noble was made a partner, and the name of the shop was changed to Hinds & Noble. 20th century : expansion 1900 -- 1919 In 1901, Hinds & Noble moved to 31 -- 35 W. 15th Street. In 1917, Noble bought out Hinds and entered into a partnership with William Barnes, son of his old friend Charles ; the name of the store was changed to Barnes & Noble. Charles Barnes had opened a book - printing business in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873 ; William Barnes divested himself of his ownership interest in his father 's firm just before his partnership with Noble and it would go on to become Follett Corporation. 1920 -- 1939 Barnes & Noble 's former flagship store at 105 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York that operated from 1932 to 2014. In 1930, Noble sold his share of the company to William Barnes ' son John Wilcox Barnes. Noble died on June 6, 1936, at the age of 72. In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, the bookstore moved to a flagship location on 18th Street and Fifth Avenue, which served as so until its closure in 2014. The Noble family retained ownership of an associated publishing business, and Barnes & Noble opened a new publishing division in 1931. 1940 -- 1959 In 1940, the store was one of the first businesses to feature Muzak ; it underwent a major renovation the following year. That decade the company opened stores in Brooklyn and Chicago. William Barnes died in 1945, at the age of 78, and his son John Wilcox Barnes assumed full control. The company underwent a significant expansion between the 1950s and the 1960s, opening an additional retail store on 23rd Street in Manhattan, as well as shops near the City University of New York, Harvard, and other Northeast college campuses. 1960 -- 1979 Barnes and Noble corporate headquarters, 122 ( 122 -- 124 ) Fifth Avenue between West 17th and 18th Streets in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City 5th Avenue store sign John Barnes died in 1964, and the company was sold to the conglomerate Amtel two years later. The business was purchased in 1971, by Leonard Riggio for $1.2 million. By then, it had been badly mismanaged over the prior two years and consisted only of `` a significantly reduced wholesale operation and a single retail location -- the store at 105 Fifth Avenue. '' In 1974, Barnes & Noble became the first bookstore chain to advertise on television and a year later, the company became the first bookseller in America to discount books, by selling The New York Times best - selling titles at 40 % off the publishers ' list price. Between the 1970s and the 1980s, Barnes & Noble opened smaller discount stores, which eventually phased out in favor of larger stores. They also began to publish their own books to be sold to mail - order customers. These titles were primarily affordable reissues of out - of - print titles and selling them through mail - order catalogs allowed Barnes & Noble to reach new customers nationwide. In November 1974, in response to a question from a member of the studio audience, the British twin brothers Norris McWhirter and Ross McWhirter, who were editors of the British - produced Guinness Book of Records, claimed on the BBC One television programme Record Breakers that the Fifth Avenue store of Barnes and Noble had overtaken that of London 's Foyles bookshop to become the world 's biggest bookstore. 1980 -- 1999 Barnes & Noble continued to expand throughout the 1980s, and it purchased the primarily shopping mall - based B. Dalton chain from Dayton Hudson in 1986, for an estimated $275 million to $300 million. The last B. Dalton stores were scheduled to close in January 2010. In 1989, Barnes and Noble had purchased the 22 - store chain Bookstop. Solveig Robinson, author of The Book in Society : An Introduction to Print Culture, wrote that the purchase `` gave ( Barnes and Noble ) the necessary know - how and infrastructure to create what, in 1992, became the definitive bookselling superstore. '' The acquisition of the 797 B. Dalton bookstores turned the company into a nationwide retailer, and by the end of fiscal year 1999, the second - largest online bookseller in the United States. B&N 's critics claim that it has contributed to the decline of local and independent booksellers. Before Barnes & Noble created its official website, it sold books directly to customers through mail - order catalogs. It first began selling books online through an early videotex service called `` Trintex, '' a joint venture between Sears and IBM, but the company 's website was not launched until May 1997. 21st century : Operating in an electronic environment 2000s Video games and related items were sold in the company 's GameStop retail outlets from 1999 until late 2004, when the division was spun off by distributing its 59 % stake in GameStop to stakeholders of Barnes & Noble 's, making it an independent company. In 2002, Leonard Riggio 's brother Stephen Riggio was named Barnes & Noble 's CEO, a position he held until 2010. The Barnes & Noble Review, an online literary site, was launched in October 2007. It featured book reviews, columns, and interview from critics and authors such as Michael Dirda, John Freeman, A.C. Grayling, Ezra Klein, Paul LaFarge, Mark Sarvas, Dava Sobel, Neal Stephenson, Stephen King, and Greil Marcus. Music critic Robert Christgau has also written essays for the site. 2010s According to B&N 's website, it now carried more than 2 million titles in 2010. Also in 2010 website president William Lynch was named CEO. He is credited with helping launch the company 's electronic book store and overseeing the introduction of its electronic book reader, the Nook. Many observers saw his appointment as underscoring the importance of digital books to Barnes & Noble 's future. Steve Riggio stayed on as vice chairman. Lynch resigned in mid-2013, and he was replaced by Chief Financial Officer Michael Huseby early the next year. Following the spinoff of Barnes and Noble Education, Huseby departed to head the new firm ; his place was filled in mid-2015 by Ronald Boire, who departed one year later. Demos Parneros was named Barnes & Noble 's Chief Executive Officer in April 2017 after having joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in November 2016. He was previously President, North American Stores & Online, for Staples, Inc. After the bankruptcy and closure of its chief competitor, Borders Group, in 2011, Barnes & Noble became the last remaining national bookstore chain in America. This followed a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, which also saw the demise of Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble 's own subsidiary B. Dalton, and Crown Books, among others. Barnes & Noble 's largest physical bookstore rival is now Books - A-Million, which does not operate in the Western US. Barnes & Noble also faces competition from general retailers, especially from Amazon.com, and from regional and independent booksellers. In the 2010s Barnes & Noble has reduced its overall presence. It closed its original flagship store in early 2014. Mid-2014 it spun off the Nook Media division. Publishing Barnes & Noble publishes some of the books it sells, inexpensively reprinting non-copyrighted titles or acquiring the U.S. or English language rights from another publisher. In addition, Barnes & Noble commissions reprint anthologies and omnibus editions using in - house editors. One of these titles, The Gentle Art of Verbal Self - Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin, has sold over 250,000 copies. The reissued edition of The Columbia History of the World by John Garrity, for example has sold over 1 million copies. Since then, the company has expanded its publishing operation. This expansion was aided by the company 's 2001 acquisition of SparkNotes, an educational website and publishing company. Further expansions of the company 's publishing business include the purchase of Sterling Publishing in 2003. From around 1992 through early 2003, Barnes & Noble released a series of literary classics for adults and children under the imprint Barnes & Noble Classics. Originally available only in hardcover, most titles came in a black or cream - colored dust jacket edition. In 2003, Barnes & Noble revamped and expanded its line of literature classics, releasing books in hardcover, mass market, and trade paperback editions. In addition, Barnes & Noble has a second paperback series called the Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading. Food service The Barnes & Noble café in Springfield, New Jersey The first store to feature a café serving Starbucks beverages was in Springfield, New Jersey, in 1993. Since then, most stores have been amended or constructed specifically to feature a café serving Starbucks beverages, Harney & Sons or Tazo Tea, FIJI Bottled Water, bakery goods from The Cheesecake Factory, candy from Godiva Chocolatiers, sandwiches and other specialty products. Although the cafés are owned and operated by Barnes & Noble, servers follow Starbucks ' standards in beverage preparation. The Barnes & Noble membership card is accepted to receive a discount on any café related goods. Starbucks Rewards and gift cards are not accepted at Barnes & Noble cafés. In 2004, Barnes & Noble began offering Wi - Fi in the café area of selected stores, using SBC FreedomLink ( now the AT&T Wi - Fi network ). All stores currently offer Wi - Fi, an effort which was completed in 2006. Since July 27, 2009, Wi - Fi is offered for free to all customers. The Barnes & Noble at The Grove at Farmers Market, Los Angeles. Barnes & Noble in Lynnwood, Washington, using the former 1990s era logo. In 2016, Barnes & Noble announced plans during an investor conference to open four concept stores featuring restaurants twice the size of their cafés that would offer better food, wine, and beer. The restaurants, which are planned to open in fiscal year 2017, are expected to drive sales growth ; should sales meet expectations, additional concept stores could open and stores with enough space to accommodate the restaurant could have the restaurants incorporated there as well. Company officials planned to open the first such stores in New York, Minnesota, California, and Virginia. The Barnes & Noble restaurants are expected to include a waitstaff and a full menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Community involvement Barnes & Noble hires community business development managers to engage in community outreach. These managers ' responsibilities include organizing in - store events, such as author appearances, children 's storytimes and book groups. Community business development managers also work closely with local schools and groups to promote literacy and the arts. For example, Barnes & Noble sponsors a children 's summer reading program that promotes literacy and puts over 2 million books into the hands of the children each year. Barnes & Noble also hosts bookfairs, which raise funds for schools and libraries and an annual holiday book drive to collect books for disadvantaged children. Barnes & Noble stores collected and donated nearly 1.6 million books to more than 650 local charities across the country that provide services to disadvantaged children during the 2016 Holiday Book Drive. To promote nationwide literacy among 1st to 6th graders and encourage more reading during the summer, Barnes & Noble has implemented a summer challenge : if children read eight books and write about their reading, Barnes & Noble will give the reader a free book. Barnes & Noble Nook See also : Barnes & Noble Nook Barnes & Noble Nook ( styled NOOK ) is a suite of e-book readers developed by the company, based on the Android platform. The first device was announced in the United States on October 20, 2009 and was released November 30, 2009, for $259. On June 21, 2010, Barnes & Noble reduced the Nook 's price to $199, as well as launched a new Wi - Fi - only model, for $149, and released a Nook colored touch screen for $249. The Nook competes with the Amazon Kindle, Kobo eReader, and other e-reader offerings and color tablets used sometimes as readers, such as Apple 's iBooks for iOS devices. Various Nook models feature a 6 - inch, 7 - inch, or larger touchscreen. Version 1.3 of the Nook introduced Wi - Fi connectivity, a web browser, a dictionary, chess, and sudoku games, and a separate, smaller color touchscreen that serves as the primary input device. The Nook also features a Read in Store capability that allows visitors to stream and read any book for up to one hour while shopping in a Barnes & Noble bookstore. According to a June 2010 CNet article, the company planned to expand this feature to include periodicals in the near future. The color version of the Nook introduced a 7 - inch color touchscreen and the ability to view at a portrait or landscape orientation. On April 30, 2012, Microsoft invested $300 million for a 17.6 % stake in Nook, which valued the business at about $1.7 billion. In November 2012, the technology publications Mashable and Techdirt criticized the license agreement with which Barnes & Noble sells ebooks to consumers, pointing out that the rights to re-download a purchased ebook expire when the customer 's credit card expires, and a valid credit card must be added to the account to restore this functionality. In June 2014, Barnes & Noble had previously announced that it would spin off its Nook Digital division into a separate publicly traded company, but as of 2016, Nook remains a part of Barnes & Noble. That same month, the company announced a partnership with Samsung Electronics to make Nook tablets, as the bookseller moved forward with plans to revamp its digital business. Samsung and Barnes & Noble introduced the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 7.0 in August 2014, followed by the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook 10.1 in October 2014. In December 2014, Barnes & Noble announced that it had ended its Nook partnership with Microsoft by buying back its stake. Samsung and Barnes & Noble continue to introduce new Nook tablets. In March 2016, Barnes & Noble announced it would close the Nook App Store and Nook Video and in the UK close the Nook Store on March 15. It will continue to sell e-books as well as digital magazines and newspapers in the US. College bookstores In August 2015, Barnes & Noble announced the completion of the separation of its Retail and College businesses. Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is now an independent public company and the parent of Barnes & Noble College, trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol, `` BNED ''. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, previously owned by company chairman Leonard Riggio, operated the self - proclaimed `` world 's largest bookstore '' on Fifth Avenue and 18th Street in New York City, from 1932 to 2014. This flagship store carried a large variety of textbooks, medical and legal books, and medical supplies, in addition to the various trade titles carried at the company 's main stores. See also New York City portal Companies portal Books portal Amazon.com Book Stacks Unlimited Books - A-Million Bookselling Borders Group Follett Corporation List of bookstore chains References Jump up ^ `` Management Team ''. Barnes & Noble. Retrieved September 25, 2015. ^ Jump up to : `` Barnes & Noble, Inc. Annual Report '' ( PDF ). 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