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This location closed in the early 2000s, and still has the neon hanging up. Deb Shops, Inc. was a specialty retail chain store and catalog in the United States, selling women's clothing and accessories under its own private labels, as well as other labels, then exclusively an online retailer. The company was based in Philadelphia and ...
Bookmans. Books-A-Million - 2nd & Charles. Borders Books and Music - closed all locations in 2011. Brentano's - closed all locations in 2011. Crown Books - closed all locations in 2001. Deseret Book - also operates Seagull Book. Encore Books - defunct 1999. Family Christian Stores - closed all locations in 2017.
Barnes & Noble Nook. Barnes & Noble Nook (styled NOOK) is a suite of e-book readers developed by the company, [ 88] based on the Android platform. The first device was announced in the United States on October 20, 2009, and was released November 30, 2009, for $259. [ 89]
B. Dalton Bookseller. B. Dalton Bookseller was an American retail bookstore chain founded in 1966 by Bruce Dayton, a member of the same family that operated the Dayton's department store chain. [ 1] B. Dalton expanded to become the largest retailer of hardcover books in the United States, with 779 stores at the peak of the chain's success. [ 1]
National Book Store, Inc. (also spelled National Bookstore and abbreviated as NBS) is a retail company based in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. [ 2] It operates a bookstore and office-supplies store chain of the same name. It is the largest bookstore chain in the Philippines with over 230 branches nationwide.
Entrance to the Half Price Books Northwest Highway, the corporate headquarters, on E. Northwest Highway in Dallas, Texas Half Price Books in Berkeley, California. Founders Ken Gjemre (1921-2002) and Pat Anderson opened the first store in 1972 in a former laundromat in Dallas, Texas, filling the shelves with 2,000 books out of their personal libraries. [5]
The bookstore had 70,000 books in its early years, which increased by the mid-1960s to 500,000. By the 1990s it had 2.5 million books, which necessitated the renting of a warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. At that time, the oldest book for sale in the Strand was an edition of Magna Moralia, which was priced at $4,500.
The New York store also housed a large organ; it was sold at auction in 1955 for $1,200 (~$10,655 in 2023) after the New York store closed the year prior. [10] News of the Titanic's sinking was transmitted to Wanamaker's wireless station in New York City, and given to anxious crowds waiting outside—yet another first for an American retail ...