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Some of the bestselling books at B. Dalton that year include Stephen King’s It, You’re Only Old Once by Dr. Seuss, and The Watchman. Explore our list of books that were popular in B. Dalton Bookstores at the very peak of the chain's success in 1986, now at Barnes & Noble®.
Dalton expanded to become the largest retailer of hardcover books in the United States, with 779 stores at the peak of the chain's success. [ 1 ] Located mainly at indoor shopping malls, B. Dalton competed primarily with Waldenbooks.
The number of outlets had reached 22 by the end of fiscal 1984, each carrying some 7,500 titles. Pickwick Books offered a 40 percent discount on hardcover best-sellers and an across-the-board ten percent on all other titles. The number of Pickwick stores reached 37 by June 1986, when B. Dalton announced that the chain would be discontinued.
Barnes & Noble bought B. Dalton in 1986, and Borders bought Waldenbooks in 1995. B. Dalton & Waldenbooks were these companies' "downmarket" outlets, basically only offering bestselling mass-market paperbacks to the least adventurous readers in economically depressed areas.
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore. 1980s and 1990s
B. Dalton expanded throughout the 1960s and 1970s, going from twelve stores in 1968 to 125 five years later, peaking at 798 locations in 1986. In 1968, the chain acquired Pickwick Books ; they merged in 1979. [2]
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Feb 1, 2021 · B. Dalton was founded in Minneapolis in 1966 by Bruce Dayton, a successful Midwest department store entrepreneur, who dropped the Y and added an L. The chain expanded successfully, almost to 800 stores by 1986.
