It was the best of times for the Riggios. By the early 1990s, after 25 years of running campus bookstores in lower Manhattan, and buying up chains one by one, the tough entrepreneurial family from ...

The Problem: Fell behind upstart competitor. Barnes & Noble was slow to react to Amazon.com’s launch in July 1995. When it did launch an e-commerce site in 1997, its online spinoff, Barnesandnoble.com ...

After more than two years, Amazon.com Inc. has settled its patent-infringement suit against rival Barnesandnoble.com Inc. over the use of its one-click system. The U.S. District Court in Seattle ...

Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "barnesandnoble.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 898-082, March 1998. (Revised February 2001.) ...