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...
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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 the earnings growth of our retail business and look forward to an even better year in 2002,
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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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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,