Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 11200 Broadway Street Pearland, Texas

July 16, 2008 8:30 AM EDT

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore in Pearland Town Center on July 30 at 11200 Broadway Street, Pearland, Texas. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee. The new Pearland Town Center Barnes & Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sunday, and employ approximately 50 people from the community.

The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Pearland Town Center Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, July 29, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit the Adult Reading Center, Inc. Costume character Miffy, from the "Miffy" series of children's books, will host Storytime at 7 p.m.

Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller in quality, and for the fifth year in a row, the top bookseller brand, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). The new store will feature:

    --  The Barnes & Noble Membership Program. Designed for Barnes &
        Noble's best customers, this program gives Members 40% off
        hardcover fiction and nonfiction bestsellers, 20% off all
        other adult hardcover books, and 10% off virtually everything
        else in Barnes & Noble stores and online at Barnes &
        Noble.com. The annual fee is $25.

    --  Rapid special-order service. Can't find it on the shelf?
        Barnes & Noble's massive warehouse inventory is available in
        real-time, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the
        availability of over one million titles at the click of a
        button.

    --  Large-scale children's departments. Bigger than most typical
        bookstores and stocking over 15,000 titles in an
        easy-to-browse environment, "Barnes & Noble Jr." departments
        are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and
        librarians. Children's story hours will be held three times a
        week.

    --  Advanced technology movie, audiobook and music-previewing
        system. The store will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced
        listening and previewing technology. RedDotNet enables
        customers to preview select DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, audiobooks,
        or CDs in the store, sampling a title by simply passing it
        under a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic
        catalog, the store's listening stations make "browsing with
        your ears" a reality. Thanks to the latest technology,
        RedDotNet stations also allow customers to view a three-minute
        clip of more than 7,000 DVDs. Additional music titles are
        available for special order.

    --  Giant Newsstand. The store's newsstand stocks over 2,000
        titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines
        and out-of-town newspapers.

    --  Wi-Fi Service. AT&T Wi-Fi(SM) service allows customers to use
        their laptop computers and personal digital assistants
        anywhere in the store or cafe to communicate online, surf the
        Internet and connect to corporate networks at speeds 50 to 100
        times as fast as a dial-up connection. A single two-hour
        session costs $3.95, and an annual membership with unlimited
        access to Barnes & Noble and more than 50,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hot
        spots is also available.

    --  Community Center. The Barnes & Noble store will serve as a
        local community center, hosting a number of community events
        throughout the year. They will include author readings and
        discussions, book clubs, and programs with local literary and
        cultural organizations. The store will also hold bookfairs,
        partnering with local schools and other community
        institutions. For more information, please contact Melanie
        Masterson at (713) 436-7953.

    About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 800 bookstores in 50 states. The company is the nation's top bookseller in quality, and for the fifth year in a row, the top bookseller brand, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Source: Barnes & Noble, Inc.

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