^ Silicon Valley Dispatches Column," San Jose Mercury News September 16, 2000.^ Larry Barrett, " soars on Barnes and investment," CNET News, June 6, 2000.
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^ Susan Meyers, "People in the News: Dan Doernberg & Rachel Unkefer," PC Magazine, July 10, 1984.The physical stores were finally closed on December 1, 2001, and the domain name was retired it is now operated by an unrelated organization. Acquisition by Barnes & Noble į was acquired and absorbed by Barnes & Noble, the large bookstore chain, in November 2000. This was eventually spun off as a new company called MightyWords. In the summer of 1999 Fatbrain started selling electronic documents under the eMatter brand.
Along with the new name, a new logo (an emoticon: ) and slogan were introduced. Company executives worked with branding specialists Interbrand Group but eventually a name suggested by the company's editorial director, Deborah Bohn, was chosen. Soon after going public the company was renamed ( NASDAQ FATB) after a six-month process to come up with a new name. The combined company became, and it went public in 1998. Instead, the young company acquired Computer Literacy Bookshops in 1997. Computer Literacy Bookstores moved to sue CBooks Express for trademark infringement. In 1995, Chris MacAskill and Kim Orumchian started an online bookstore called CBooks Express, specializing in computer-related books. On August 25, 1991, the company registered the domain name and began taking book orders from customers worldwide via email. In 1993, the only East Coast location was opened in the Tysons Corner area of suburban Washington, DC to make a total of four bricks-and-mortar locations. The store not only sold books and periodicals but displayed galley pre-prints for skimming and editing, held author and guest engineer speaking events such as Gene Amdahl or Donald Knuth. The TechMart store subsequently relocated to the headquarters of Apple Computer, Inc. The San Jose store was probably the largest computer bookstore in America, with over 14,000 square feet of floorspace dedicated to new computer books. In 1987 the company opened two additional stores: one on North First Street in San Jose and another in the TechMart complex near Great America in Santa Clara. It was located in the heart of Silicon Valley, not far from where the original Fry's Electronics store opened two years later. We will be coming back.The first Computer Literacy Bookshop was opened in March 1983 on Lawrence Expressway between Lakeside Drive and Titan Way in Sunnyvale, California, by founders Dan Doernberg and Rachel Unkefer. They got a lot of book without asking for help thanks to that. My children were able to navigate through the store without any issue.