NPR: “Barnes & Noble Founder Retires, Leaving His Imprint On Bookstore’s History”

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His name is Leonard Riggio and he’s co-founder and chairman of Barnes & Noble bookstore — the largest retail bookseller in the United States. It was Riggio — his Barnes & Noble, alongside rival Borders — who gave America the big-box bookstore. Riggio steered Barnes & Noble from an era of bonded leather books through the proliferation of free information in the Internet age, and the advent of online booksellers. Yes, he’s watched his industry wrestle with digital publishing and the popularity of e-books and the rise of Amazon.
Now after more than half a century getting books on and off shelves and into the hands of thousands of people in America and across the world, Riggio is turning the final chapter on the book selling business. At 75, he’s retiring.

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