In a Real-Life Page-Turner, Buyers Fight to Buy Barnes & Noble
Business Wars Daily
Wondery
4.6 • 716 Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Today is Thursday, June 13, and we’re looking at Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.
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| 1:11.5 | It's a question we've been asking for years. |
| 1:13.7 | What does it take for a bookseller to survive in the age of Amazon? |
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| 1:20.1 | Barnes & Noble, the beleaguered bookstore chain, is up for sale. |
| 1:24.3 | Last Friday, it announced that it had struck a deal to be acquired by the owner of |
| 1:27.5 | the UK bookstore chain Waterstones for about $683 million. More than $200 million of that value |
| 1:35.5 | is the assumption of Barnes and Noble's debt. It turns out, though, that the brick and mortar |
| 1:40.1 | book business may be more desirable than most investors assumed. On Tuesday, the Wall |
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