Barnes & Noble

American book retailer
Organization business Q795454
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Financials

Self-reported XBRL data from 3 annual filings
Revenue
$3.55B
▼ 3.0% YoY FY2019
Net Income
$3.77M
▲ 103.0% YoY FY2019
Assets
$1.71B
▼ 2.5% YoY FY2019
EPS (diluted)
$0.05
▲ 102.9% YoY FY2019
$0.00$1.07B$2.14B$3.21B$4.28B FY2017: $3.89B · NI $22.02M (0.6% margin)FY2018: $3.66B · NI -$125.48M (-3.4% margin)FY2019: $3.55B · NI $3.77M (0.1% margin) '17'18'19
■ Revenue ■ Net Income
Source: SEC EDGAR · latest 10-K filed 2019-04-27 · accession 0001193125-19-176078

Barnes & Noble

Summary

Barnes & Noble is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 0.87% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,570 views/month, #257 of 29,529).[2]

Key Facts

  • Barnes & Noble is in the country of United States[3].
  • Barnes & Noble's instance of is recorded as business[4].
  • Barnes & Noble's instance of is recorded as enterprise[5].
  • Barnes & Noble's instance of is recorded as public company[6].
  • Barnes & Noble's instance of is recorded as bookstore chain[7].
  • Barnes & Noble's founder is recorded as Leonard Riggio[8].
  • Barnes & Noble's founder is recorded as William Robbins Barnes[9].
  • Barnes & Noble's founder is recorded as Gilbert Clifford Noble[10].
  • Barnes & Noble's item operated is recorded as Q139718741[11].
  • Barnes & Noble's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[12].
  • Barnes & Noble's Commons category is recorded as Barnes & Noble[13].
  • Barnes & Noble's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[14].
  • Barnes & Noble's industry is recorded as bookselling[15].
  • 1873 marks the founding of Barnes & Noble[16].
  • 1917 marks the founding of Barnes & Noble[17].
  • Barnes & Noble's location of formation is recorded as New York City[18].
  • Barnes & Noble's official website is recorded as https://www.barnesandnoble.com/[19].
  • Barnes & Noble's official website is recorded as https://www.bn.com[20].
  • Barnes & Noble's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Barnes & Noble[21].
  • Barnes & Noble's described at URL is recorded as https://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/barnes-noble-inc-history/[22].
  • Barnes & Noble's product or material produced is recorded as software[23].
  • Barnes & Noble's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+40000'}[24].
  • Barnes & Noble's employees is recorded as {'amount': '+26000'}[25].
  • Barnes & Noble's legal form is recorded as Delaware corporation[26].
  • Barnes & Noble's owner of is recorded as GameStop[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300WEQE1M8II5OS20[28]

  • Registered legal name: Barnes & Noble, Inc.[29]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-DE[30]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[31]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): XTIQ[32]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[33]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[34]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-03-26[35]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[36]

  • LEI next renewal: 2015-03-24[37]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[38]

  • Registration authority: RA000602[39]

  • Authority entity ID: 2108060[40]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[41]

Body

Founding

Founders include Leonard Riggio[8], William Robbins Barnes[9], and Gilbert Clifford Noble[10]. Recorded inception include 1873[16] and 1917[17]. Barnes & Noble's location of formation is recorded as New York City[18].

Operations

Barnes & Noble's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[12].

Industry

Barnes & Noble's industry is recorded as bookselling[15].

Ownership

Barnes & Noble's stock exchange is recorded as New York Stock Exchange[14]. Its product or material produced is recorded as software[23].

Why It Matters

Barnes & Noble ranks in the top 0.87% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12,570 views/month, #257 of 29,529).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GRID. Retrieved . grid.ac. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ROR release v1.19. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [40] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [41] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Sabelöga · 2026-09-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikisimpsons article id → 133443
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P10291]]: 133443, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/296169801|Barnes & Noble (#296169801)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8109|Wikisimpsons]] #m"
  2. 13d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 31
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fy', 'he', 'hy', '
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  3. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 8F58-2DCD-3A78-FDCA-94E7
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  4. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Item operated → Q139718741
    P14541 → 2wBEnU
    Owner of → GameStop, SparkNotes, Q139718741
    Date of incorporation → +1982-03-17T00:00:00Z
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  5. 21w ago · Jwillikers · 2026-05-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1873-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1917-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Headquarters → —
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1320]]: us_de/933928"
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