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   [AP via someone or another]   
      
   Leonard Riggio, Who Forged a Bookselling Empire at   
   Barnes & Noble, Dead at 83   
      
   Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing    
   industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful    
   bookseller before his company was overtaken by the rise of Amazon.com, has   
   died    
   at age 83   
       ....   
   Riggio died Tuesday "following a valiant battle with Alzheimer's disease,"    
   according to a statement issued by his family. He had stepped down as chairman    
   in 2019 after the chain was sold to the hedge fund Elliott Advisors.   
      
   Riggio's near-half century reign began in 1971 when he used a $1.2 million   
   loan    
   to purchase Barnes & Noble's name and the flagship store on lower Fifth Avenue    
   in Manhattan. He acquired hundreds of new stores over the next 20 years and,   
   in    
   the 1990s, launched what became a nationwide empire of "superstores" that    
   combined a chain's discount prices and massive capacity with the cozy appeal   
   of    
   couches, reading chairs and cafes.   
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   rest:   
   https://vinnews.com/2024/08/27/leonard-riggio-who-forged-a-books   
   lling-empire-at-barnes-noble-dead-at-83/   
      
      
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