COLUMBIA -Owning a bookstore is much more than selling books, and more than 300 book enthusiasts from across the country learned the latest tricks of the trade. The MBS Systems User Symposium kicked ...

In a news release yesterday, Barnes and Noble Education announced it is purchasing local textbook distribution company MBS Textbook Exchange for $174.2 million. MBS, which started as the Missouri ...

Bob Pugh can spin a colorful yarn, often reinforcing the maxim that truth is stranger than fiction or simply giving testament to his passion for Columbia or his impatience with technology in his ...

BASKING RIDGE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE:BNED) (“the Company” or “BNED”), one of America’s largest contract operators of bookstores on college and university campuses ...

When Bob Pugh joined the executive team at what is now MBS Textbook Exchange in 1967, the company was one of “the runts of the litter” of businesses competing to sell new and used textbooks to college ...