Steve Riggio
Steve Riggio
Barnes & Noble, Inc., is a Fortune 500 company, the largest retail bookseller in the United States, and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products in the country. The company operates 640 retail storesin all 50 U.S. states...
growth meet numbers originally rest sales
As with the rest of the sector, sales growth will not meet the numbers we originally expected, but it will still be healthy,
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This investment is about giving authors with small voices the loudspeakers they need to get their works published and distributed throughout the world,
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You're going to have all types of entrepreneurs enter into the marketplace because these two giants have fired the starting gun,
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give the retailer a chance to capture a big share of the market quickly.
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Third-quarter sales met expectations, benefiting from a strong hardcover release schedule in October. If our sales trend continues, we are optimistic that the company will be able to deliver its fourth-quarter results as planned.
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The economics of online retailing are very different from those of store retailing -- online customers complete their own transactions and therefore, not only expect to receive, but are entitled to receive direct-from-warehouse pricing,
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While we regret the impact of this consolidation in human terms, we believe it is necessary in order to bring the expense base of the company down.
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The publishers are going to join this revolution, ... They're not going to be able to stop it.
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We are very pleased with our first-quarter results. As important, our strong balance sheet puts us in an excellent position to build our e-commerce capability on every front.
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We are pleased with our first-quarter results, and we believe our growth in sales and market share is clear validation of the importance of e-commerce in the bookselling industry, ... We continue to achieve these gains with a minimum of promotional offers, such as free shipping, and no off-line advertising.
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We are pleased with our third-quarter results, and we are confident that our significant sales growth and continued market share gains in the online book market are further evidence that Barnes & Noble.com is the destination of choice for more and more book buyers on the Web.
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We are pleased with the earnings growth of our retail business and look forward to an even better year in 2002,
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The quality of print (has been) generally very poor. It's hard on the eyes, hard on the nerves.