Barnes and Noble bookstore chain put up for sale
Sad tale for US giant, which owns 720 high-street shops in all 50 American states but saw profits slump
America's largest chain of high-street bookshops, Barnes & Noble, last night put itself up for sale in the latest sign of distress in the literary retailing world which has already seen the demise of the Borders book chain in Britain.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 4 August, 2010
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