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Contents 1 Out of town retail stores 2 Number of employees 3 GameSpot ??? 4 Worldwide? 5 Music 6 More Run-on Sentences than I can Shake a Stick At. 7 Expansion 8 Gamestop 9 Unlike other bookstores... 10 Deletion of Queen's Café Section 11 Common Conversation Mistake 12 Anna Currence and the Superstore Design 13 Biggest bookstore in the world?

[edit] Out of town retail stores

What exactly makes it famous for 'out of town' retail stores? Just curious... - HC —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.235.44.231 (talk • contribs) 06:17, 28 February 28 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Number of employees

Tried to make the number of employees appear but was having trouble. It's 40,000 if anyone could fix that, that would be great. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.233.109.98 (talk • contribs) 23:27, 4 March 2005 (UTC)

Fixed the problem with making number of employees show up. It seems that someone misused the | tag in the key_people category. - AJ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Oo64eva (talk • contribs) 05:54, 30 March 2005 UTC)

[edit] GameSpot ???

As far as I know, GameSpot is owned by CNET. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fadetoblack (talk • contribs) 02:20, 21 April 2005 (UTC)

They own 59% of GameStop, infobox was fixed. — oo64eva (AJ) ^{(U | T | C)} @ 05:28, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)

Gamestop was spunoff in fiscal 2005. It is publicly traded on the NYSE and completely independent of Barnes & Noble. --Sep 10, 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.123.8.116 (talk • contribs) 20:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Worldwide?

What is the evidence for the statement in the first line of the article that Barnes and Noble is "worldwide". I can't see any evidence that they are in more than one country! This change was made by an anonymous user (who has made no other Wikipedia contributions) on 15 March 2006 and I am going to change it --PeterR 08:26, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Good catch, Peter! --MCB 22:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnes & Noble, Inc. is international! Barnesandnoble.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.) ships internationally (This can be verified by checking the shipping options on the barnesandnoble.com website) and has customers making purchases outside of the US. Additionally, as stated in Barnes & Noble's 2005 Form 10-K (filed with the SEC on 5 April 2006), "The Company leases…two locations in the United Kingdom for office and warehouse space for Calendar Club:…40,016 and 22,363 square feet…" Furthermore, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (yet another wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.) licenses some of it's published works for UK distribution through UK wholesalers. --27 August 2006 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.123.8.116 (talk • contribs) 10:08, August 27, 2006 (UTC)

Right, but unlike Borders, it doesn't actually have real overseas stores which one can walk into and buy a book. All its actual retail B2C operations are in the United States. --Coolcaesar 06:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Music

"The music is played louder in this area of the store as a psychological attempt to keep people from over staying." I think the music is usually awful but it isn't really that loud. Sounds POV. MafiaCapo 11:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree, it seems to be based on the author's subjective opinion. Actually, after reading over the section several times, I edited to remove the entire paragraph about the size, table design, etc., of the cafés. It is unsourced, appears to be an opinion or conclusion, and not only is it unverifiable, it's not really factual: I've been in a number of B&N cafes in different parts of the country, and the size of the cafe, the cafe tables, the music volume, etc., vary widely, and I don't think anything encyclopedic can be assrted about those things without strong sources. MCB 17:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Having worked @ a B&N I can tell you the cafe` & the music department have their own volume controls. If the department was louder it was due to the employee working in that department.Vea 00:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

The music volume comment was completely false and needed to be removed, byt Vea- not all BN stores have the exact same sound system installed. any reasonable person would realize that. Tony P 07:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] More Run-on Sentences than I can Shake a Stick At.

Maybe I'll get to it first, but the author of this article seems to be under the impression that one can simply add in a few hundred ","'s and write an entire paragraph in a single sentence.

The word flow on this page makes my reading senses go "ouch". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.113.239.146 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

Does anybody have any info about Barnes & Noble expanding to other countries?Maybe Puerto Rico? —Preceding unsigned comment added by BoricuaPR (talk • contribs) 15:49, December 27, 2006 (UTC)

FYI, Puerto Rico is not another country it is part of the United States. Tom Bonnie 23:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes its true,but since 98% percent of americans don't know it..--BoricuaPR 23:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

They have no plans to open any stores outside the United States.Allyona (talk) 04:49, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gamestop

I think they still own enough of GameStop to be notable. I know I get my B&N employee discount there. Mustafarox 16:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

you might want to double check that. I last worked for B&N in May 2005, the Gamestop discount was discontinued before then. It may have changed since then, just making a note. Deatonjr 16:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

I'm a Barnes and Nobles employee in New York City. I can still walk into a GameStop with my paystub and get a nice 20% off of games. Unfortunately no discount on the platforms. :( So yeah, apparently B&N still owns enough of GameStop to warrant employee discounts. --24.168.116.69 08:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

It's my understanding what when I worked for Babbages was that one of the Riggio brothers owned the portion of the company and that the discount was done as a courtesy. --Drmike 02:59, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

The discount has been valid at (first Babbages) Gamestop consistently for at least the past 12 years.Allyona (talk) 04:50, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Gamestop is now a publicly traded company, completely independent of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Aside from current and former Barnes & Noble Officers and/or Directors serving on the Gamestop Board, Barnes & Noble Inc. and Gamestop Inc. have a strategic partnership with regard to video games sales and distribution via BarnesandNoble.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.). As of January, 2008, Barnes & Noble and Gamestop employees receive employee dicount benefits at both Barnes & Noble and Gamestop retail stores. --23 January 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.249.137 (talk • contribs) 07:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Unlike other bookstores...

I have an issue with the "Unlike other bookstores..." bit where it's said that other chains don't do much publishing. When I ran my Waldenbooks way back when, we had store owned imprint titles as well and they were fairly well featured. --Drmike 03:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of Queen's Café Section

It seems to me that the section detailing the location of a Starbucks near a Barnes and Noble in Queens, and the subsequent confusion generated by having a Starbucks separate from the bookstore, is unnecessary as it deals with an oddity in only one specific location of a Barnes and Noble, and doesn't really help to flesh out the B&N-Starbucks connection. If nobody else minds, I'm going to delete this location-specific paragraph. Danberbro (talk) 18:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Agreed -- good edit. --MCB (talk) 00:17, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Common Conversation Mistake

It has been a common mistake, at least in the American English language, to call Barnes and Noble: "Barnes and Nobles." So much so that the name of the bookseller has been known as Barnes and Nobles for a long time in the English language. However, this isn't their name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.233.119.117 (talk) 17:40, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Anna Currence and the Superstore Design

In the Anna Currence article, and in several Crown Books/SEC articles online, it is claimed Anna Currence was a key designer of the B&N Superstore. I cannot find anything from the B&N side to verify that. Is that simply a claim that she/Crown made, or is there truth to it somewhere? --BizMgr (talk) 18:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Biggest bookstore in the world?

A sign in the window of the Manhattan Flagship prides itself on being "The World's Largest Bookstore". I saw it once recently while passing by. Given the factuality of this, I think this is especially noteworthy in the article.

Thanks,

-Alan 24.184.184.177 (talk) 05:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Only if it were true. Signs in store windows don't meet our standards for reliable sourcing. --Orange Mike | Talk 16:59, 11 June 2008 (UTC)