Barnes & Noble often closes a handful of stores around the end of calendar year due to expiring leases that are not renewed. We charted reports of 8 such closings at the end of 2012, and 7 at the end of 2011. So far this season, we have spotted news of another 6 store closings due at the end of this year, for locations in Chestnut Hill, MA; Boylston Street, Boston, MA; University Park Village and Sundance Square in Ft. Worth, TX; Old Pasadena, CA; and Columbia, SC. In June, at the close of their fiscal year, the company said […]