Choice tidbits: “I’ll tell you a story about an incident that I’m sure is part of the reason we are what we are. Sometime around May of 1997 we were put on a deathwatch by a well-known industry pundit. His argument was a simple one: Barnes & Noble had just launched their website, and we had only 125 employees at the time, and something like $60 million in annual sales… They had 30,000 employees at that time, and $3 billion in sales.”