Bye Bye B. Dalton

The remaining B. Dalton Bookstores, a division of Barnes & Noble, will all close at the beginning of next year.

The Hawk Eye-IA reports: “These are small-format, low-volume stores in malls, and their leases are expiring. This is in line with what we’ve been doing over the last eight years, closing 35 to 40 stores per year as their leases expire,” said Lenore Feder in an e-mail statement.