Barnes & Noble is Acquiring Bookstore and Keeping Them Independent

Retail
Written By Rick Watson

Barnes & Noble is the largest bookseller in the United States, operating approximately 600 retail bookstores and a significant online store at BN.com. It sells a wide variety of physical and digital books, and also offers other products like gifts, stationery, and the SparkNotes educational service.

Barnes & Noble announced that it plans to acquire Books Incorporated, a longtime Bay Area retail bookseller, for $3.25 million out of bankruptcy. They plan to keep the legacy bookshop as an independent entity with seven neighbourhood locations and two stores operated at San Francisco International Airport.

Barnes & Noble: Barnes & Noble to Acquire Books Inc.

Rick Watson

Rick Watson founded RMW Commerce Consulting after spending 20+ years as a technology entrepreneur and operator exclusively in the eCommerce industry with companies like ChannelAdvisor, BarnesandNoble.com, Merchantry, and Pitney Bowes.

Watson’s work today is centered on supporting investors and management teams incubating and growing direct-to-consumer businesses. Most recently, in partnership with WHP Global, Rick was a critical resource in architecting the WHP+ platform, a new turnkey direct to consumer digital e-commerce platform that powers AnneKlein.com and JosephAbboud.com.

Watson also hosts a weekly podcast, Watson Weekly, where he shares an unbiased, unfiltered expert take on the retail sector’s biggest players.

In the past year alone, Rick has spoken at many in-person and virtual events as well as podcasts on topics ranging from retail/ecom to supply chain/logistics and even digital grocery including CommerceNext IRL, ASCM Connect, and Retail Innovation Conference.

https://www.rmwcommerce.com/
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