The question (most) everybody is asking: who wants to buy B&N?
https://newrepublic.com/article/1509...rnes-and-noble
(Or more precisely: who looked into buying B&N and ran for the hills?)
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Who could this retailer be? It’s unlikely to be Amazon, which is forging its own path and has thus far seemed only marginally interested in physical book retail. It’s not clear that Books-a-Million and Half-Price Books, the second- and third-largest general trade book retailers, have the resources, let alone the ambition. One possible candidate, according to multiple sources in book publishing and retail, is the Canadian book seller Indigo, which has defied the bleak trends in publishing in recent years, posting profits and selling literary fiction by the crateload. (People in book publishing talk about Indigo the way liberal voters talk about moving to Canada—as an almost mythical promiseland.)
Indigo is known to be interested in entering the American market and is set to open its first American store in the fall. It has the expertise and resources to pull off such a deal.
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More at the source, including a profile of Riggio that suggests he is definitely ending up as covered in muck as Parneros.