Barnes & Noble Inc.’s founder and chairman, Leonard Riggio, told the bookstore chain he is interested in buying its consumer business and spinning out the unit that makes the Nook tablet, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Barnes & Noble is scheduled to report its fiscal third- quarter earnings on Thursday. The company’s shares have lost more than half their value in five years, closing at $13.51 on Feb. 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock index gained 12 percent in the same period. [Bloomberg]
Barnes & Noble
03/04 Gregg Allman: My Cross to Bear (5th Ave)
03/04 Andrew Jenks: My Adventures as a Young Filmmaker (USQ)
03/05 Tom Coughlin: Earn the Right to Win (5th Ave)
03/05 Rita Moreno w/ Lin-Manuel Miranda: Rita Moreno (86th & Lex)
03/07 Jeffrey Frank: Ike and Dick (Tri)
03/11 Mohsin Hamid: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (86th & Lex)
03/11 Ira Katznelson: Fear Itself (82nd & Bway)
03/12 Emily Davidson, Bruce Davidson: Bobby’s Book (86th & Lex)
03/12 Sheryl Sandberg: Lean In (USQ)
03/14 Richard Hell: I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp (Upstairs at the Square)
03/21 Demetri Martin: Point Your Face at This (USQ)
03/21 Sachi Parker: Lucky Me (86th & Lex)
03/25 Taiye Selasi, Alice Smith: Ghana Must Go, She (Upstairs at the Square)
03/26 Caroline Kennedy: Poems to Learn by Heart (USQ)
03/27 Robin Quivers: The Vegucation of Robin (USQ)
03/27 Elizabeth Strout: The Burgess Boys (86th & Lex)
03/27 Joyce Carol Oates: The Accursed (86th & Lex)
03/27 Adam Alter w/ Malcolm Gladwell: Drunk Tank Pink (82nd & Bway)
03/28 Michael Findlay: The Value of Art (86th & Lex)
03/28 Jay Neugeboren: The American Sun and Wind Moving Picture Company (82nd & Bway)
Housing Works
03/04 Taste of Home
03/05 The Cartoonist in Comics
03/06 Dragons in Space Redux
03/08 Geeks vs. Nerds Trivia Happy Hour
03/11 RONTEL Book Release Party with Sam Pink, Scott McClanahan
03/12 The Moth StorySLAM: Stranded
03/14 Ask Roulette w/ Mike Pesca, Albertina Rizzo, and Choire Sicha
03/18 Poseur: Marc Spitz and Chuck Klosterman
03/20 Slaughterhouse 90210 4th Birthday Party
03/22 I Would Die 4 U: A Prince Dance Party
Bookcourt
03/05 Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts
03/07 Tom Folsom: Hopper
03/22 Dave Bry: Public Apolog
Powerhouse Arena/Powerhouse on 8th
03/02 Tasting Event: Dinner, A Love Story (POWERHOUSE on 8th)
03/05 Christa Parravani w/ Anthony Swofford: Her
03/06, Middle Grade Book Night (POWERHOUSE on 8th)
03/08 Al Gore: The Future
03/14 Mike Joyce: Swissted