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   Barnes & Noble, Inc. is a retailer that operated 886  bookstores and 1,231 video game and entertainment software  stores as of 2/1/03. The Company also sells books and  software over the Internet. For the 13 weeks ended 5/1/04,  revenues rose 23% to $1.45B. Net income totaled $12.5M vs.  a loss of $2M. Revenues reflect the opening of new book  stores and new GameStop stores. Net income also reflects  improved gross margins and lower depreciation.    Barnes & Noble on the Forbes 2000 Retailing RANK 1385 Sales $5.59 bil Profits $.13 bil Assets $3.55 bil Market Value $2.43 bil Employees 39,000 Forbes 2000 data...

Will Kerry's supporters stop at nothing? The cover of the new anti-Kerry book, Unfit for Command, set to hit shelves soon, has been given an alternative, pro-Kerry cover at the Barnes & Noble online store. The title of the book has been changed to Fit for Command, and the cover image has been changed from a close-up of a finger-pointing Kerry to a picture of Kerry in uniform with other Vietnam veterans. (The book currently sits at #7 on the Barnes & Noble Top 100 and at #2 on Amazon.) The book, which challenges the "war hero" status of John...

Another crusty first: after almost a week, Amazon.com is still hiding the reviews from customers on the book from hellHaving written one of the very first reviews for this lying piece of garbage, early monday am, amazon is still saying "be the first to review this book"After reentering the review twice since, it still says the same thing....Knowing the many reviews that MUST have come from others here, it is painfully clear that Amazon.com has gotten bombed with horrible, horrible reviews and it refuses, for the first time I am aware of in years, to print customer reviews the lies...