{"id":98567,"date":"2025-12-23T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98567\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T15:43:27","slug":"barnes-noble-said-it-plans-to-open-60-new-stores-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/98567\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &#038; Noble said it plans to open 60 new stores in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) \u2014 A once-thriving bookstore is making a major comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Barnes &amp; Noble plans to open 60 new stores across the United States in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The announcement comes after nearly two decades of store closures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bookseller told USA Today that the expansion follows a period of strong sales at existing stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The new locations are expected to open in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, Washington state and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company said the new stores will have a variety of books, toys, games and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) \u2014 A once-thriving bookstore is making a major comeback. Barnes &amp; Noble plans to open 60 new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[19547,45530,45534,3104,168,170,169,45531,45533,45532,12655],"class_list":{"0":"post-98567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-barnes-noble","9":"tag-barnes-and-noble","10":"tag-book-store","11":"tag-books","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-opening-more-stores","16":"tag-opening-new-stores","17":"tag-opening-stores","18":"tag-stores"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}