B&N's chairman, Len Riggio, is Publishing Weekly's Person of the Year. From the
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B&N is manufacturing Nookcolors at a rate of 18,000 per day and is loading up a 747 every four to five days to bring devices to the U.S. from China, Riggio says.
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That is a lot of Nook Colors, 500,000 or so for the holidays. Also:
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"We intend to have a lot to say about the future of bookstores," Riggio promises. "We're in it to stay."
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Not really surprising, since this is their only potential advantage over Amazon. The question is whether anyone can make mainstream chain bookselling work in the US.