Goldman Says 30% Chance of Barnes & Noble Deal - MarketBeat - WSJ: "... to the extent that the chairman and 30% holder of [Barnes & Noble] has expressed interest in buying the company, and that investor Ron Burkle, a 19% holder, had recently launched litigation over the firm’s poison pill, and has discussed the possibility of launching a proxy contest, we [Goldman] assign a 30% probability to a transaction, recognizing potential challenges in financing a transaction and the potential lack of other bidders."
Read "the potential lack of other bidders" as "no organization actually crazy enough to want to invest in a massive chain of brick-and-mortar bookstores, all of them on life-support."
