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Aug 27, 2024 · 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.Video above: Remembering those we've lost in 2024Riggio died Tuesday “following a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s disease,” according to a statement ...
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.
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 ...
Oct 12, 2024 · Leonard Stephen Riggio was born February 28, 1941 in New York, and attended Brooklyn Technical High School. After graduating in 1958, he took night classes at NYU for a while before dropping out. He founded a small bookshop, the Student Book Exchange, in 1965.
Aug 27, 2024 · August 27, 2024 at 1:04 pm EDT. 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 a “following a valiant battle ...
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 ...
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 ...
