Bookstore chain Barnes & Noble introduced on X (previously Twitter) on Tuesday that the founder Leonard Riggio has died. He was 83.
Riggio opened the Scholar E book Trade in 1965, earlier than buying the Barnes & Noble bookstore in 1971 and utilizing its title for his firm.
The chain expanded its choice of books to incorporate manga, graphic novels, and pastime video games because it competed with Amazon for on-line gross sales in 1995. Barnes & Noble is now one of many largest world booksellers. He would function the CEO various instances all through the corporate’s historical past.
He went on to discovered a online game gross sales operation within the late 1990’s, which might turn out to be GameStop after a sequence of mergers and management modifications.
Riggio additionally grew to become the Chairman of the Board of school textbook wholesaler MBS Textbook Trade in 1985.
Sources: Barnes & Noble’s X/Twitter account, ICv2 (Milton Griepp)
