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Barnes & Noble CEO on Strategy, Book Sales and Possible IPO
Bloomberg Television· 2026-07-28 19:53
Well, you remember a while back, investors wrote off Barnes and Noble. This is when Eliot took the company private back in 2019 and then appointed the new CEO, James Dawn. But that strategy is now working.Plans to open 60 stores in the US this year, and a lot of talk out there about a potential IPO sometime soon. Joins us now here in studio two, the CEO of Barnes and Noble. James, great to have you.Pleasure. Obviously, you've had a long career in bookselling with your own, uh, line of bookstores, uh, named ...