The Barnes & Noble Store Location List — Will a Third Be Closed?

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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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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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