Barnes & Noble Set To Be Sold To Elliott Management For About $683M
Last year I wanted to buy <i>Thinking in Bets</i> (great book, btw). I was feeling impatient, so I looked it up on Barnes and Noble's website, and saw that a store where I was had it in stock.<p>I went in to purchase it, and the price in store was a couple bucks higher than the listed price online. I asked the clerk about it, and he kind of shrugged and said he couldn't do anything about it.<p>I walked out without the book and ordered it from Amazon on my phone in the parking lot.<p>I still can't fathom the decision-making that led to that pricing strategy.