James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble, discussed his experience leading the world’s largest retail bookseller, overseeing 612 stores in the United States, and his experience as Managing Director of the United Kingdom’s largest retail bookseller, Waterstones, which boasts 293 locations across the U.K, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Belgium. He also discussed the challenges that E-commerce has presented to the retail bookselling industry and the importance of keeping bookstores alive.