Dive Brief
- Barnes & Noble, Inc. told employees from its Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan Tuesday that they would be laid off after the store was officially shuttered Monday.
- Barnes & Noble, Inc. has long operated textbook stores on college campuses nationwide, and students can also find the books listed on their syllabi at bn.com.
- The Fifth Avenue store is just blocks from New York-based Barnes and Noble’s Union Square flagship and was until Monday a go-to off-campus brick-and-mortar outlet for textbook and trade offerings that charmed many students in New York.
Dive Insight
Last year the nation’s largest bookstore chain had warned of 15 to 20 closings across its business. Barnes & Noble Inc. still has a handful of retail locations in Manhattan and retains brick-and-mortar stores elsewhere, many of them sizable. But even its steady textbook business is increasingly affected by more consumers opting for e-books, and the chain is struggling to figure out how to maneuver in the swiftly changing book-selling landscape.