Thread: "Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683 Million"
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Old 08-10-2019, 11:47 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
The deal closed this week.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...se-of-b-n.html

It's final.
One of the things the new CEO had to say (from the article)...

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This is a very good day for bookselling. Barnes & Noble is the greatest of all bookstore names and will now benefit from the support of an owner committed to physical bookselling.
My emphasis on "physical." Maybe I'm reading too much into this but, considering that Waterstones dropped eBooks, I have to wonder if this is the end of the Nook.
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