Barnes & Noble Education Inc

Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions across the United States. The Company is a provider of textbook wholesalers, and inventory management hardware and software. It operates approximately 1,120 physical and virtual bookstores, delivering educational content and general merchandise within an omnichannel retail environment. It offers its First Day affordable access course material programs, consisting of First Day Complete and First Day, which provide faculty-required course materials to students on or before the first day of class. The First Day Complete program is an institution and includes all the undergraduate classes and, on occasion, graduate classes, providing students with both physical and digital materials. Its solutions include academic solutions, college retail solutions, college insights and wholesale & store technology services.

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