Leonard Riggio, hard-driving entrepreneur who made Barnes & Noble a bookstore behemoth – obituary
Monday, September 9th 2024, 5:04:00 am
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Leonard Riggio, who has died aged 83, bought a struggling Manhattan bookshop called Barnes & Noble in 1971 with a $1.2 million loan and transformed it into America’s biggest bookshop chain, in the process putting numerous small neighbourhood booksellers out of business.
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