JANINE FLANIGAN: Everything you see in the store will be brand-new. There's, like, a whole nook of manga, another nook of books for young readers, graphic novels. (Whispering) Games, puzzles, travel are all in kind of a little nook. Inside is lit up and bright with bookshelves arranged, not in rows of alphabetical stacks, but in little thematic rooms so people linger and browse and maybe find something they didn't know they wanted. I'm here to check out the chain's makeover. (Whispering) It's really quiet in here, which makes sense. I'm kind of cutting across the small parking lot to go from the old, shut-down Barnes & Noble to the brand-new, recently opened Barnes & Noble. As NPR's Alina Selyukh reports, Barnes & Noble is once again expanding.ĪLINA SELYUKH, BYLINE: The ghost of Barnes & Noble past meets the spirit of Barnes & Noble future in a single shopping center. Then, the bookseller fell to the brink of extinction. Barnes & Noble was once the biggest of its kind.
