Barnes & Noble Proxy Fight Heats Up, Vote Set for Tomorrow

A fight for the future of mega-bookseller Barnes & Noble is underway, and will hopefully be settled tomorrow. The fight centers around Ron Burkle and Yucaipa company, which is trying to place their own members on the B&N board. Burkle says that without his people, B&N is left to the whims of Leonard Riggio.

Here’s what Publishers Weekly said:

The get out-the-vote message accompanied a last appeal from Burkle to dump the Len Riggio-led slate in favor of the alternative slate led by Burkle himself. The letter struck at familiar themes

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