Achievements
Since pioneering the superstore concept in the early 1990s, Barnes & Noble has revolutionized the bookselling business and expanded the marketplace for books in ways never before imagined.
Barnes & Noble was the first bookseller to discount books and advertise on television, and the first to make bookstores friendlier and more accessible. Comfortable chairs, cafés, huge children’s departments, music and DVD/video offerings, community events, and author readings and signings have made Barnes & Noble stores America’s information and entertainment piazzas.
Barnes & Noble is the only bookseller with a fully operational multichannel strategy, with retail locations from coast to coast and an online subsidiary, Barnes & Noble.com.
Barnes & Noble.com offers the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles with more than one million titles in stock, available for immediate delivery, and supplemented by more than 30 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare, and used book dealers. Barnes & Noble.com is also a leading online retailer of CD and DVD/video titles. In addition to innovations in retailing, Barnes & Noble’s publishing program offers books not found elsewhere at prices not matched anywhere.
