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Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch holds the Nook Tablet. Lynch is resigning as chief executive after three years on the job. (Photo: Jim Sulley, Newscast).
Barnes & Noble has a rich history that can be traced back to 1873 when Charles M. Barnes started the business in his Illinois home. Nearly a century later, Leonard Riggio acquired the flagship Barnes & Noble trade name and over the next four decades transformed the company into the bookselling giant that it is today.