Barnes & Noble announced that it would open 30 new stores in 2023 on top of the 16 stores opened in 2022, a sharp contrast to the store's pandemic-era closings and furloughs reported by Publisher's Weekly.

At least two of the 30 new stores will open in Massachusetts, one in Sherwood Plaza in Natick and the other in Wareham, Barnes & Noble told Daily Voice. Both are scheduled to open in June. 

The chain opened two new locations in the Boston area in November 2022, one in Lynnfield and one in Dedham. Both stores took over buildings that previously housed the now-defunct brick-and-mortar Amazon Books chain. 

The slew of announced openings marks a rebound for Barnes & Noble after a decade of openingonly one or two stores annually.

The locations of two additional new stores in the works for the state of Massachusetts have yet to be announced.

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