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   Aug 29, 2024 · Leonard Riggio Obituary Published by Legacy Remembers from Aug. 28 to Aug. 29, 2024. Leonard Riggio was a businessman who, starting in 1971, expanded Barnes & Noble from a single Manhattan store ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images. CNN —. Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller ...

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, who forged a bookselling empire at Barnes & Noble, dead at 83 Hillel Italie, The Associated Press Aug 27, 2024 1:33 PM Aug 27, 2024 1:35 PM Share by Email

4. nypost.com › 2024/08/27 › businessBarnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio dies at 83 - New York Post

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   Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, who built Barnes & Noble into largest US bookstore chain, dies at 83. Barnes & Noble founder Leonard Riggio, who built a single bookstore into a national powerhouse, passed away 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 · Washington, D.C. Riggio-Lynch Chapel Clinton, Tennessee. Leonard Riggio, founder and former chairman of Barnes & Noble, Inc., has died following a valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 83.

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   Who is Leonard Riggio?

   • He grew the company into the country’s largest bookselling chain, pioneering the big-box bookstore in the 1990s before doing battle with Amazon and other online retailers. Longtime Barnes & Noble chairman Leonard Riggio in 2005. (Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images)

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   When did Riggio Buy Barnes & Noble?

   • Riggio’s near-half century reign began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million loan to purchase Barnes & Noble’s name and the flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

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   How did Riggio feel about working?

   • “Ever since he was a boy from Brooklyn, he’d had a visceral reaction to the way workings stiffs and the poor were treated on a day-to-day basis,” Nader wrote of Riggio, who did at times stand apart from his management peers.

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   Why did Riggio leave B&N?

   • Riggio sold the company in 2019 to Elliott, an activist investor group founded by billionaire Paul Singer. He stepped down from B&N in 2016, remaining upbeat about the company’s future and determined to hold onto his sizable stake despite stiff competition from Amazon and the e-book industry.

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   How did Riggio relate to the independent community?

   • Riggio and the independent community may have seemed to hold opposing values, but they shared a love of reading and the arts and a liberal political outlook. He was a generous philanthropist and a prominent supporter of Democratic politicians.

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   Could Riggio terrify publishers?

   • With the power to make any given book a best seller, or a flop, to alter the market on an idle whim, Riggio could terrify publishers simply by suggesting prices were too high or that he might sign up such top sellers as Stephen King and John Grisham and publish them himself.

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   Riggio’s near-half century reign at Barnes & Noble began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million loan to purchase the company’s name and its flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.