Should Barnes And Noble Break Up? Float Off The Nook To Compete With Amazon And Apple?

Tim Worstall, Forbes
Sun, 04/29/2012 - 6:23am

Here?s an interesting idea: that Barnes and should consider splitting the company. Separate the physical bookstores from the virtual business of the Nook and allow that digital business the room and capital to compete with ?s iPad and Amazon?s Kindle? Barnes & has had a troubled few years. Part of the problem is that it ...

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