Barnes & Noble is promoting chief operating officer Demos Parneros to ceo, with Len Riggio remaining as chairman of the board. In their awkward way the company said as much in March, when Riggio didn’t have any good answers to the state of the ceo search — if there really was a search at all — but praised their “spectacular new chief operating officer” calling Parneros “certainly a top candidate for the ceo position.” Parneros was hired in November, shortly before the previous coo Jamie Carey left the company. In the press release, Riggio says, “It has become abundantly clear over the last five […]