Received the 2013 Outstanding Corporation of the Year Award presented by the Clark County School District-Community Partnership Program in Las Vegas, NV.Received the 2013 Innovations Reading Prize Award presented by the National Book Foundation.Received the 2005 President’s Volunteer Service Award, the 2005 Corporate Philanthropy Award from the Los Angeles Public Library, the 2006 Corporate Award from the Getty House Foundation, the Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Corporate Citizen Award, and honored as the 2007 Corporate Visionary Partner by the Wonder of Reading.Awarded over $1.4 million to teachers at elementary, middle and high schools for creative literacy projects.Donated more than 500,000 books to California, Nevada, New York, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia school libraries.Since its inception, the award-winning program has: The program has since been expanded to include all areas where the bank has a presence. PW's report says one publisher noted, "Someone has to be in charge of getting books into the stores." Maybe not, if B&N's ultimate goal is to move the entire business into the ether.Originally established to help improve the education of California’s future leaders, City National in April 2002 launched the multi-faceted Reading is The way up initiative to restock the state’s school library system. Reports say up to 50 positions in the buying group were eliminated. PW reported that veteran VP of merchandising Bob Wietrak and Marcella Smith, director of small press and vendor relations, left the company along with a number of buyers including Lee Stern who was responsible for cookbooks (not many of which are available as e-books yet). B&N may be blowing smoke around what it calls "small organizational changes," but prominent heads have rolled this week. All the more reason the C-suite may be considering a more a seismic shift. Now, in a new introduction written specifically for this edition of One Up on Wall Street, Lynch gives his take on the incredible rise of Internet stocks, as well as a list of twenty winning companies of high-tech 90s. On the e-commerce side, Barnes & 's comps increased a whopping 78 percent compared to last year's holiday selling season. His mantra: Average investors can become experts in their own field and can pick winning stocks as effectively as Wall Street professionals by doing just a little research. B&N's comparable-store sales might have posted an impressive 9.7 percent increase - the first holiday gains in five years - but the charge was largely led by Nook. Laments from more Luddite bookworms notwithstanding, e-readers are selling like hotcakes.
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