Barnes & Noble Education’s Weird Year: What Happens When a Campus Retail Giant Has to Start Over

And yes, even as an author who writes sexy romantsy, this still should matter to you

Something unusual happened this year in a part of the book world most people in the publishing world—authors, editors, publishers—didn’t know was happening or why it matters to us all. Barnes & Noble Education, a separate entity of Barnes & Noble, a prominent player in campus retail and course materials, had to pause everything and reexamine its financi…