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   Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, then chairman of Barnes & Noble, arrives at a bookstore in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. Riggio died on Tuesday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption

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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 ...

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   Aug 28, 2024 · August 28, 2024 at 7:05 p.m. EDT. Leonard Riggio, a swaggering Brooklyn-bred executive who grew Barnes & Noble into the country’s largest bookselling chain, then sparred with Amazon as online ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · February 28, 1941 – August 27, 2024. NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., has died following a valiant battle with ...

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   Aug 31, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, who has died aged 83, had a different vision. As chief executive of the US shop chain Barnes & Noble, in the 1990s he built book palaces as large as 60,000 sq ft in communities as ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Riggio’s near-half century reign began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million loan to purchase Barnes & Noble's name and its flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

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   • Riggio died on Tuesday. NEW YORK — Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83.

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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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   How did Riggio die?

   • Riggio died Tuesday “following a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease,” according to a statement issued by his family. He had stepped down as chairman in 2019 after the chain was sold to the hedge fund Elliott Advisors.

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   • Bookselling and family often overlapped for Riggio. His brother Steve Riggio served for years as vice chairman of Barnes & Noble and another brother, Thomas Riggio, helped run a trucking company that shipped the store’s books.

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Join the conversation. NEW YORK (AP) — Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has died at age 83. Riggio died Tuesday “following a valiant battle with Alzheimer ...