COSTELLO: "The Wall Street Journal" reporting Barnes and Noble may soon part ways with its e-Reader, the Nook. Alison Kosik is at the New York Stock Exchange with a possible buyout. Hi Alison.</s>ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Carol. Well this deal would involve actually splitting Barnes & Noble into two businesses. Essentially the idea is to really just find a way to keep the bookstore open. So the chairman and the founder of Barnes & Noble his name is Leonard Riggio (ph). He currently owns 30 percent of Barnes & Noble. Well now he wants to buy back the Brick and Mortar Bookstore. So what would happen would be that he would spin off the Nook -- the Nook e- Book and e-Reader business as one and the other would be the physical bookstores and BarnesAndNoble.com. Now, talks of all this began last year. Right now the physical bookstores, they still actually, believe it or not, make more money and do much more in annual sales than the Nook. You look in fiscal 2012 the stores actually took in almost $5 billion in sales. The Nook took in less than $1 billion. We will see if this in fact happens. And if it does happen, if it's enough to save Barnes & Noble.</s>COSTELLO: All right. Alison Kosik reporting live for us this morning. "Talk Back" question, "Did Seth MacFarlane hit or miss at the Oscars?" Facebook.com/CarolCNN or tweet me @CarolCNN.
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