Throughout the s and s, the Company made numerous acquisitions, adding new bookstores throughout the country. In , the Company made its largest acquisition — retail bookstores — when it purchased B. Dalton Bookseller, making the Company a nationwide retailer overnight and the second-largest bookseller in America. In the early s, Mr. The stores offered a comprehensive inventory of books, music, educational toys and games and gifts. In , the Company purchased SparkNotes.
Over the past several years, the Company has introduced several devices in the tablet and e-Reader categories. Our mission is to support students, faculty and schools, serving as a catalyst to meet the evolving needs of the education system and a new generation of students.
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Our Mission Our mission is to support students, faculty and schools, serving as a catalyst to meet the evolving needs of the education system and a new generation of students.
The discount sales annex had been a radical step, eliminating the high-brow atmosphere long associated with bookstores. The superstores managed to combine the savings and huge selection of the discount store with an environment tailored equally well to book lovers, socializers, and bargain hunters.
This growth increasingly led to declining sales for mall bookstores, including the company's own. Dalton stores per year since , but in late decided to step up its mall closings. During , 69 B. Dalton stores closed and another 72 were shuttered the following year. Dalton outlets and opened a small number of new, larger B. Dalton stores each year, seeking to place them in locations that offered increased visibility and higher traffic flow.
The new and enlarged units performed better than their predecessors, but all mall bookstores continued to be hurt by competition from nearby superstores. In early the company entered the burgeoning market for Internet bookselling through a venture with America Online Inc. Later that year the company launched its bookselling web site, barnesandnoble.
These moves came following the emergence of a new competitive threat, namely Seattle-based Internet bookselling upstart Amazon. The e-commerce battle between Amazon. For the fiscal year ending in January , barnesandnoble. It also claimed to have the world's largest overall selection, with more than eight million new, out-of-print, and rare books available for ordering.
The Internet bookseller's joint venture partners retained equal 41 percent shares in barnesandnoble. In July barnesandnoble. The suit claimed that the large chains had violated antitrust laws by using their buying power to demand from publishers "illegal and secret" discounts. The acquisition, however, drew strong opposition from independent booksellers as well as from Amazon. Federal Trade Commission officials ended up siding with the opponents, and recommended in June that the agency oppose the deal, having concluded that it would stifle competition in both online and offline book retailing.
Dalton Bookseller, Inc. James Press, Corners were devoted to books on special topics ranging fr om Latin America to transportation, and huge black and yellow signs d irecting customers to different categories could be read from fee t away. It was a marketing technique that worke d brilliantly. Dalton Bookse ller, a bookstore chain with outlets, from Dayton Hudson Corporat ion.
A few months later, the company becam e sole owner of a Texas and Florida chain of discount bookstores call ed Bookstop. Dalton, and its other busin esses. Leonard Riggio was the majority owner, and had a financial par tner in a Dutch conglomerate called Vendex. T hese rights had been sold after John Barnes died in The company embarked on a new growth strategy in the s, opening new "superstores" at a breathtaking pace.
The superstores were large, carrying as many as , titles, or six times the size of a typical mall book store, but they had amenities such as coffee bars and children's play areas, and were designed to be pleasant public spaces where people w ould browse, read, and mingle. Wide aisles and scattered chairs and b enches encouraged customers to linger, and local managers had the aut onomy to arrange poetry readings and puppet shows.
The discounted us ually by 10 to 40 percent superstore stock was vast, yet the space w as as posh and inviting as that of many independent bookstores. Three years later ther e were , and the company intended to open more each year throu gh But overall sales continued to rise, and the superstores contribut ed some impressive revenues.
Eighty percent of new superstores contri buted to company profits in their first year of operation. The superstores generated on the ave rage twice the sales of mall bookstores, and in superstore sales rose by percent.
But Leo nard Riggio went on the record repeatedly to dispel claims that his g rowing chain was predatory. The amount Americans spent on books rose a hefty Waldenbooks planned to more than double the size of its mall stores, from 3, to between 6, and 8, square feet.
Borders Inc. An initia l stock offering in was postponed because of adverse market cond itions. Wall Street analysts had been skeptical of the company's abil ity to sustain its profits, but a year after the first offering was w ithdrawn, superstore sales had continued to climb.
These sales accoun ted for almost half the company's total revenue, up from 26 percent i n , and the company seemed more solid. The textbook are a of the company continued to be quite profitable too, and the compan y ran almost college bookstores across the country.
The discount sales annex had been a radical step, eliminating the high-brow atmosphere l ong associated with bookstores. The superstores managed to combine th e savings and huge selection of the discount store with an environmen t tailored equally well to book lovers, socializers, and bargain hunt ers. This growth increasingly led to declining sales for mall bookstores, including the company's own.
Dalton store s per year since , but in late decided to step up its mall c losings. During , 69 B. Dalton stores closed and another 72 were shuttere d the following year.
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