For her son's 12th birthday on Thursday, a mother surprised him by letting him go on a two-minute shopping spree at a Barnes & Noble bookstore in Illinois. She only expected him to grab around a ...

Barnes & Noble, the largest private bookseller in the U.S., has been on a store-opening spree, after 15 years of shuttering locations. In 2023, it opened more shops in a single year than it had ...