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

New Bookstore Debuts on July 30

NEW YORK–(EMWNews)–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 café

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^® Brand

Study by Harris Interactive^®.

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 café

  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^®

Brand Study by Harris Interactive^®.

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.

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