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Within a few years, he had grown the Barnes & Noble Fifth Avenue store in New York City into "The World’s Largest Bookstore," with 150,000 textbook and trade titles. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Company made numerous acquisitions, adding new bookstores throughout the country.
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In November 1974, editors of the British-produced Guinness Book of Records, claimed on the BBC One television program Record Breakers that the Fifth Avenue store of Barnes & Noble had overtaken that of London's Foyles bookshop to become the world's biggest bookstore.
The flagship retail store earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1972 as "the World's Largest Bookstore," and Barnes & Noble also claimed this store did the largest dollar volume of any retail bookstore in the country.
Although it retained the name, the Guinness Book of World Records listed the Barnes & Noble College Booksellers location on Fifth Avenue in New York City as the largest bookstore in the world based on floor space, although Powell's Books of Portland, Oregon, is usually considered the largest based
In 2011, the Company added the Borders and Waldenbooks brands into its family. Start from the beginning as we recount the history of Barnes & Noble and the ground breaking moves that led us to become one of the largest book retailers.
Jul 7, 2024 · In just a few years, Riggio grew the Barnes & Noble store on Fifth Avenue into “The World’s Largest Bookstore” carrying 150,000 trade titles and textbooks. During the 1970s and 1980s, Riggio made numerous acquisitions, the largest of which occurred when Barnes & Noble acquired B. Dalton Bookseller’s 797 retail bookstores in 1987.
The business was bought in 1971 by Leonard Riggio. He oversaw the growth of the business. In 1974, Barnes & Noble became the first bookstore to advertise on television. A year later, the company became the first bookseller in America to discount books.
