Article: New Yorker Cartoon Is No Laughing Matter for Barnes & Noble Executive.(Originated from Daily News, New York)

Jun. 30--Executives at Barnes & Noble booksellers were not laughing last week about the most recent edition of New Yorker magazine, which featured a cartoon of two grim mobsters in double-breasted suits standing in a bookstore.

A nervous looking cashier shouts to her boss in the caption, "Emily, a Mr. Barnes and a Mr. Noble would like a word with you."

Presumably, the aim of the cartoon, on page 115, was to make light of Barnes & Noble's growing dominance in New York's retail book world, which last week learned of the demise of two more Manhattan bookstores.

In the last eight years, at least 10 other Manhattan book shops have ...

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