Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) CEO Mitchell Klipper said he would close over a third of the book store firm’s locations. The company has been crushed by online firm Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), much as other large retailers have, which includes Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY).

The Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has undersold the Amazon Kindle by a wide margin:

“In 10 years we’ll have 450 to 500 stores,” said Mitchell Klipper, chief  executive of Barnes & Noble’s retail group, in an interview with the WSJ last week. The  company operated 689 retail stores as of Jan. 23, along with a separate chain of  674 college stores.

Here is a list of the Barnes & Noble stores by location. The B&N Retail segment includes 691 bookstores as of April 28, 2012, primarily under the Barnes & Noble Booksellers trade name. The number of Barnes & Noble stores located in each state and the District of Columbia as of April 28, 2012 are listed below:

STATE		NUMBER OF STORES		STATE		NUMBER OF STORES
Alabama		7		Missouri		13
Alaska		2		Montana		4
Arizona		18		Nebraska		4
Arkansas		5		Nevada		5
California		80		New Hampshire		4
Colorado		17		New Jersey		24
Connecticut		13		New Mexico		3
Delaware		2		New York		46
District of Columbia		2		North Carolina		21
Florida		44		North Dakota		3
Georgia		21		Ohio		19
Hawaii		3		Oklahoma		5
Idaho		3		Oregon		7
Illinois		30		Pennsylvania		27
Indiana		12		Rhode Island		3
Iowa		7		South Carolina		11
Kansas		4		South Dakota		1
Kentucky		7		Tennessee		8
Louisiana		7		Texas		56
Maine		1		Utah		10
Maryland		13		Vermont		1
Massachusetts		18		Virginia		25
Michigan		21		Washington		18
Minnesota		20		West Virginia		1
Mississippi		3		Wisconsin		11
				Wyoming		1

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