Barnes & Noble Education expands college turf

Amazon.com has been encroaching on Barnes & Noble Education’s collegiate bookstore business with a rapidly expanding network of campus pickup locations, but Barnes & Noble is striking back.



Fourteen colleges and universities have selected Barnes & Noble College as their partner of choice to operate their campus bookstores. The 14 new contracts represent 23 new campus and virtual bookstores. The schools represent a projected additional 140,000 students and their faculty.



In the past month, Georgetown University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have chosen to partner with Barnes & Noble College. With today’s announcement, those institutions of higher learning are joined by:



· Assumption College

· Bates Technical College

· Chabot College

· Colorado College

· Lenoir Community College

· Lincoln Memorial University

· Northern Michigan University

· Ocean County College

· St. Mary’s University

· Seton Hill University

· Youngstown State University



“Barnes & Noble College’s continued success builds significantly on Barnes & Noble Education’s mission and provides an even greater footprint to deliver innovative and affordable educational content, competency-based educational tools and courseware solutions,” said Max J. Roberts, CEO, Barnes & Noble Education, Inc.