Another Big Boy, Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble originated in 1886 with a bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, located in The Cooper Union Building in New York City.  In the fall of 1886, Gilbert Clifford Noble, a then recent Harvard graduate from,Westfield Massachusetts, was hired to work there as clerk.  In 1894, Noble was made a partner, and the name of the shop was changed to Hinds & Noble.
That was the start of what was to become one of the biggest book-sellers in New York and you can find a very comprehensive history of trading and changing hands and names elsewhere on the internet.
I was drawn to try self publishing with Barnes & Noble because or their commitment to community interest projects and I also wanted to see if it was easier or any different to self publishing on Amazon. Regarding their community interest projects I read that Barnes & Noble hire community business managers to engage in community outreach.  These manager's responsibilities include the organizing in -store events, such as author appearances, children's story times and book groups.
Community business development managers also work closely with local schools and groups to promote literacy and the arts. For example, Barnes & Nobel sponsors a children's summer reading programme that promotes literacy and puts over 2 million books into the hands of children each year.
Barnes 7 noble also hosts book fairs, which raise funds for schools and libraries and an annual holiday book drive to collect books for disadvantaged children.
They also collected and donated nearly 1.5 million books to more than 650 local charities across the country that provide services to disadvantage children during the 2014 Holiday Book Drive.
To promote nationwide literacy among 1st-6th grades and to encourage more reading during the summer, Barnes & Noble has implemented a summer challenge if children read eight books and write about their reading, Barnes 7 Noble will give the reader a free book.
So after researching the company I thought I would give it a go and publish my first 100,000 word children's book on their NOOK site, which I did earlier this year. It was easy self publish with NOOK, but as before with Amazon I have not earned anything from it within the last 6 months. My sales figures have been worse than  my two pounds profit with Amazon, they have been zero. The same problem exists with Barnes & Noble as with Amazon, no  third party verification of sales figures for an independent author. In your account  you can download a company generated spread sheet of sales for the previous days and months and that is about it.
So for this disadvantaged author it has not proved to be  profitable to self publish with another Big Boy.