The Barnes & Noble Store Location List — Will a Third Be Closed?
January 28, 2013 by Douglas A. McIntyre
The Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader has undersold the Amazon Kindle by a wide margin:
“In 10 years we’ll have 450 to 500 stores,” said Mitchell Klipper, chief executive of Barnes & Noble’s retail group, in an interview with the WSJ last week. The company operated 689 retail stores as of Jan. 23, along with a separate chain of 674 college stores.
Here is a list of the Barnes & Noble stores by location. The B&N Retail segment includes 691 bookstores as of April 28, 2012, primarily under the Barnes & Noble Booksellers trade name. The number of Barnes & Noble stores located in each state and the District of Columbia as of April 28, 2012 are listed below:
| STATE | NUMBER OF STORES | STATE | NUMBER OF STORES | |||
| Alabama | 7 | Missouri | 13 | |||
| Alaska | 2 | Montana | 4 | |||
| Arizona | 18 | Nebraska | 4 | |||
| Arkansas | 5 | Nevada | 5 | |||
| California | 80 | New Hampshire | 4 | |||
| Colorado | 17 | New Jersey | 24 | |||
| Connecticut | 13 | New Mexico | 3 | |||
| Delaware | 2 | New York | 46 | |||
| District of Columbia | 2 | North Carolina | 21 | |||
| Florida | 44 | North Dakota | 3 | |||
| Georgia | 21 | Ohio | 19 | |||
| Hawaii | 3 | Oklahoma | 5 | |||
| Idaho | 3 | Oregon | 7 | |||
| Illinois | 30 | Pennsylvania | 27 | |||
| Indiana | 12 | Rhode Island | 3 | |||
| Iowa | 7 | South Carolina | 11 | |||
| Kansas | 4 | South Dakota | 1 | |||
| Kentucky | 7 | Tennessee | 8 | |||
| Louisiana | 7 | Texas | 56 | |||
| Maine | 1 | Utah | 10 | |||
| Maryland | 13 | Vermont | 1 | |||
| Massachusetts | 18 | Virginia | 25 | |||
| Michigan | 21 | Washington | 18 | |||
| Minnesota | 20 | West Virginia | 1 | |||
| Mississippi | 3 | Wisconsin | 11 | |||
| Wyoming | 1 |
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