Just in Time for Father’s Day: Barnes & Noble.com Offers Free Expedited Shipping on NOOK™ eBook Reader Plus Free $50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card for a Limited Time

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced free expedited shipping just in time for Father’s Day on all orders for NOOK, the Barnes & Noble award winning eBook Reader. Gift givers can place NOOK orders online at www.nook.com as late as 10:59AM ET on Thursday, June 17, to receive free delivery in time for Father’s Day. Those shopping after that time can still purchase NOOK in their local Barnes & Noble store. There, booksellers will gift wrap all NOOK purchases for Dad, at no cost, an added benefit for last-minute shoppers. And through a limited time promotion, all NOOK purchases for $259 come with a free $50 Barnes & Noble gift card to help Dad get a jumpstart on his digital library.

NOOK is the most full-featured eBook Reader on the market and the perfect gift for the dad who loves to read anytime, anywhere. With NOOK, dads can instantly stock up on their favorite digital reads, choosing from more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers in the expansive Barnes & Noble eBookstore, sample eBooks for free and lend eBooks to friends. When in a Barnes & Noble store, dads can enjoy a cup of coffee from the café, connect to fast and free Wi-Fi®, browse complete eBooks at no cost, and enjoy free exclusive in-store content and promotions.

Gift givers can also help Dad read in style by choosing from a range of classic and colorful accessories. Dads will go straight to the top of the best dressed list with a stylish designer accessory designed exclusively for NOOK by renowned designers including Jack Spade and Jonathan Adler.

About NOOK™, by Barnes & Noble

NOOK marries innovative technology and sleek minimalist design with access to the Barnes & Noble eBookstore of more than one million eBooks, newspapers and magazines. NOOK's color touch screen for navigation along with a best-in-class E Ink display offer an immersive, enjoyable eReading experience. It offers both free 3G wireless and Wi-Fi, and is the first to offer digital lending for a wide selection of eBooks through its LendMe™ technology. In Barnes & Noble stores, NOOK customers can access free Wi-Fi connectivity, enjoy the beta Read In Store feature to browse many complete eBooks for free, and the More In Store program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. NOOK is available for $259 in Barnes & Noble stores, www.nook.com and at Best Buy stores and www.bestbuy.com.

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ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 723 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 639 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and over 250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is the nation’s top bookseller brand for the seventh year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand’s performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, 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, which also features more than one million titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Barnes & Noble customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOKTM by Barnes & Noble, eBook Readers from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free BN eReader software.

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

NOOKTM is a trademark of Barnes & Noble, Inc.

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