Talk:Barnes & Noble
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What exactly makes it famous for 'out of town' retail stores? Just curious... - HC
Tried to make the number of employees appear but was having trouble. It's 40,000 if anyone could fix that, that would be great.
- Fixed the problem with making number of employees show up. It seems that someone misused the | tag in the key_people category. - AJ
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[edit] GameSpot ???
As far as I know, GameSpot is owned by CNET.
Gamestop was spunoff in fiscal 2005. It is publicly traded on the NYSE and completely independent of Barnes & Noble. --Sep 10, 2006
[edit] Worldwide?
What is the evidence for the statement in the first line of the article that Barnes and Noble is "worldwide". I can't see any evidence that they are in more than one country! This change was made by an anonymous user (who has made no other Wikipedia contributions) on 15 March 2006 and I am going to change it --PeterR 08:26, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
- Good catch, Peter! --MCB 22:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
Barnes & Noble, Inc. is international! Barnesandnoble.com (a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.) ships internationally (This can be verified by checking the shipping options on the barnesandnoble.com website) and has customers making purchases outside of the US. Additionally, as stated in Barnes & Noble's 2005 Form 10-K (filed with the SEC on 5 April 2006), "The Company leases…two locations in the United Kingdom for office and warehouse space for Calendar Club:…40,016 and 22,363 square feet…" Furthermore, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. (yet another wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.) licenses some of it's published works for UK distribution through UK wholesalers. --27 August 2006
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- Right, but unlike Borders, it doesn't actually have real overseas stores which one can walk into and buy a book. All its actual retail B2C operations are in the United States. --Coolcaesar 06:56, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Music
"The music is played louder in this area of the store as a psychological attempt to keep people from over staying." I think the music is usually awful but it isn't really that loud. Sounds POV. MafiaCapo 11:12, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
- I agree, it seems to be based on the author's subjective opinion. Actually, after reading over the section several times, I edited to remove the entire paragraph about the size, table design, etc., of the cafés. It is unsourced, appears to be an opinion or conclusion, and not only is it unverifiable, it's not really factual: I've been in a number of B&N cafes in different parts of the country, and the size of the cafe, the cafe tables, the music volume, etc., vary widely, and I don't think anything encyclopedic can be assrted about those things without strong sources. MCB 17:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Having worked @ a B&N I can tell you the cafe` & the music department have their own volume controls. If the department was louder it was due to the employee working in that department.Vea 00:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
The music volume comment was completely false and needed to be removed, byt Vea- not all BN stores have the exact same sound system installed. any reasonable person would realize that. Tony P 07:25, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] More Run-on Sentences than I can Shake a Stick At.
Maybe I'll get to it first, but the author of this article seems to be under the impression that one can simply add in a few hundred ","'s and write an entire paragraph in a single sentence.
The word flow on this page makes my reading senses go "ouch".
[edit] Expansion
Does anybody have any info about Barnes & Noble expanding to other countries?Maybe Puerto Rico?
- FYI, Puerto Rico is not another country it is part of the United States. Tom Bonnie 23:01, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes its true,but since 98% percent of americans don't know it..--BoricuaPR 23:03, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Gamestop
I think they still own enough of GameStop to be notable. I know I get my B&N employee discount there.
Mustafarox 16:36, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- you might want to double check that. I last worked for B&N in May 2005, the Gamestop discount was discontinued before then. It may have changed since then, just making a note.
Deatonjr 16:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
- I'm a Barnes and Nobles employee in New York City. I can still walk into a GameStop with my paystub and get a nice 20% off of games. Unfortunately no discount on the platforms. :( So yeah, apparently B&N still owns enough of GameStop to warrant employee discounts. --24.168.116.69 08:46, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
