<P> Barnes & Noble operates mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores . The company's headquarters are at 122 Fifth Avenue in New York City . </P> <P> After a series of mergers and bankruptcies in the American bookstore industry since the 1990s, Barnes & Noble stands alone as the United States' largest national bookstore chain . Previously, Barnes and Noble operated the chain of small B. Dalton Booksellers stores in malls until they announced the liquidation of the chain . The company is known for large retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks coffee and other consumables, from cannolis to spinach and feta pretzels . Most stores sell books, magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, toys, music, and Nook e ‐ readers and tablets . </P> <P> Barnes & Noble originated in 1886 with a bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, located in the Cooper Union Building in New York City . In the fall of 1886, Gilbert Clifford Noble, a then - recent Harvard graduate from Westfield, Massachusetts, was hired to work there as a clerk . In 1894, Noble was made a partner, and the name of the shop was changed to Hinds & Noble . In 1901, Hinds & Noble moved to 31--35 W. 15th Street . </P> <P> In 1917, Noble bought out Hinds and entered into a partnership with William Barnes, son of his old friend Charles; the name of the store was changed to Barnes & Noble . Charles Barnes had opened a book - printing business in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873; William Barnes divested himself of his ownership interest in his father's firm just before his partnership with Noble and it would go on to become Follett Corporation . Although the flagship store once featured the motto "founded in 1873," the C.M. Barnes - Wilcox Company never had any connection to Barnes & Noble other than the fact that both were partly owned (at different times) by William Barnes . </P>

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