{"id":6288,"date":"2010-08-05T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2010-08-05T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:19:06","slug":"barnes-and-noble-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6288","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble For Sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/strong> has a <strong><a title=\"B&amp;N up for Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/hard-to-see-the-upside-of-a-barnes-noble-sale\/article1662095\/\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> about <strong>Barnes &amp; Noble<\/strong>, the biggest U.S. bricks-and-mortar bookselling chain, preparing to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of a perception that its shares \u00e2\u20ac\u0153are now significantly undervalued.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The news brought B&amp;N shares up more than 19 percent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>So, are we seeing market manipulation, and attempt to\u00c2\u00a0re-value B&amp;N shares, or have they claimed a solid enough stake in the<strong> eBook Revolution<\/strong> to get the best price possible for a chain that boasts a bricks-and-mortar platform while it also pays for it? I guess we&#8217;ll find out soon. The powers that be at B&amp;N have certainly done a heck of a job raising the bookseller&#8217;s profile for the digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Globe and Mail has a story about Barnes &amp; Noble, the biggest U.S. bricks-and-mortar bookselling chain, preparing to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because of a perception that its shares \u00e2\u20ac\u0153are now significantly undervalued.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The news brought B&amp;N shares up more than 19 percent on Wednesday. So, are we &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6288\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}