Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 1063 Howard Parkway Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

New Bookstore Debuts on April 12
NEW YORK--(Business Wire)--
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller,
will open a new bookstore in The Market Common on April 12 at 1063
Howard Parkway, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Concurrently, the
existing store at 1145 Seaboard Street will close. The new store will
stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and
include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee. The Market Common Barnes &
Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and
9 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 Market
Common Barnes & Noble on Friday, April 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion
of the Preview Night sales will benefit the Horry County School
District. Costume character Madeline will host Storytimes and
children's crafts throughout the evening. Costumed characters Harry
Potter, Dora the Explorer and Snow White will host children's
activities, as well.

To celebrate the grand opening on April 12, authors Diane and
David Munson will be on hand to sign copies of their books, including
The Camelot Conspiracy, at 1 p.m. Author Celia Rivenbark will be on
hand to sign copies of her books, including Stop Dressing Your
Six-Year-Old Like a Skank, at 3 p.m.

Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations have established it as
America's top bookseller brand. For the fourth year in a row, the
EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R) named Barnes & Noble
bookstores number one in overall brand equity, which is based on a
brand's strength in familiarity, quality and purchase intent. 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 Storytime will be held once a week.

-- Advanced technology music-listening and movie-previewing
system. The store's music department will feature RedDotNet,
the most advanced listening and previewing technology.
RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store,
sampling up to 270,000 music titles by simply passing it under
a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic music
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 up to 60,000 DVDs.

-- 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 Jaimy
Beecher at (843) 238-2917.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller
and a Fortune 500 company, operates 798 bookstores in 50 states. For
the fourth year in a row, the company is the nation's top bookseller
brand, as determined by a brand's overall strength based on its
combination of 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:
http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Lenore Feder, 212-633-3379
Corporate Communications
lfeder@bn.com
or
Lilja Inc.
Mary Lilja, 952-893-7140
mcl@lilja.com

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