Barnes & Noble Announces January “More In Store™” Offers Available Only on the NOOK™ Family of eBook Readers

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced the January line-up for the “More In Store™” program for the NOOK™ family of eBook Readers. Available only in Barnes & Noble stores and only on NOOK, the free More In Store program offers NOOK customers new, exclusive content from bestselling and new authors, special offers and savings, and weekly bestseller and new release lists.

Barnes & Noble’s free in-store Wi-Fi® service makes access to More In Store content easy. With just a simple tap of the NOOK “shop” button, customers can explore content from such authors as Steve Berry, Jodi Picoult and Susan Wiggs, and in-store promotions including special savings and free café offers. More In Store is updated weekly and each new feature is available for four weeks on a rolling basis. Once a customer downloads the content to their NOOK, it is saved to their digital locker and can be accessed at any time.

The Barnes & Noble More In Store for NOOK January line-up includes:

• January 2

An American Action Hero in a Faraway Land by Steve Berry

New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry’s “Cotton Malone” series has won him a legion of devoted fans – Malone’s Clones – and his books have sold over 11 million copies worldwide. In this exclusive essay for NOOK customers, Berry writes about the things he discovered about a civilization that’s 5,000 years old and whose innovations have changed the course of human history.

A New, More Grateful Year by John Kralik

So many of our New Year’s resolutions our focused on ourselves: Lose ten pounds. Go to the gym. Save more for retirement. But after a particularly dark year, John Kralik made a beautiful resolution: to let the people in his life know just what they’d done for him. Kralik is sharing his story exclusively with Barnes & Noble customers.

• January 9

Words as Weapons by Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult, author of 17 books many of which have been New York Times bestsellers and one that was made into a major motion picture, is beloved by fans worldwide. But, even this successful and talented woman faced a bully in high school. In honor of No-Name Calling Month, Picoult is writing an essay about bullying exclusive to Barnes & Noble.

Three Easy Ways to Stop Procrastinating Now! By Piers Steel

Did you resolve to stop procrastinating in 2011? And are you planning to keep that resolution tomorrow? Or the next day? Or the day after that? Piers Steel has some fool proof tips for NOOK owners on how to quit procrastinating.

• January 16

The Book Behind No-Name Calling Month by James Howe

In partnership with Simon & Schuster and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Barnes & Noble is proud to participate in No-Name Calling Month, dedicated to helping end school bullying. In this exclusive essay for Barnes & Noble, you can read about the origin of the campaign and the book that started it all.

A Place by the Lake by Susan Wiggs

Author Susan Wiggs offers a behind-the-scenes tour of the places that inspired her beloved Lakeshore Chronicles and offers insights into just who might be Marrying Daisy Bellamy – exclusively for Barnes & Noble.

• January 23

Reading Only the Best Parts by Conor Grennan

Conor Grennan has spent the last six years working to help Nepalese children who have been kidnapped from their homes and sold into domestic slavery. In this exclusive essay for Barnes & Noble, Grennan tells the story of his anxiety about what the children might think of the book he wrote about them.

Words in a Creative Force by Kevin Hall

For most of us, words are a method of communications or of art. For Kevin Hall, they’re pure magic. In this exclusive piece for Barnes & Noble, Hall describes how a mentor gave him the key to using words to transform his life – a lesson he’s passed on to readers in his inspiring new book, Aspire.

• January 30

Mouse Lessons by Cynthia Voigt

Newbery Medal-winning author Cynthia Voigt turns her attention to a mainstay character of children’s literature – the mouse. She shares exclusively with Barnes & Noble customers why she thinks mice are so popular as children’s characters and what we can learn from them.

Editors’ Picks of 2010: In Case You Missed Them by James Mustich

It’s not too late to catch up with some of the best reading published in 2010. The editors of the Barnes & Noble Review give a sample from their list of the best fiction and nonfiction of the last year.

• NOOKbook Bestsellers and NOOKbook New Releases List

As always, NOOK readers can access Barnes & Noble NOOKbook™ Bestseller and NOOKbook New Releases lists. The lists are available as part of the “shop” feature on NOOK and offer book overviews, free sample chapters and customer ratings to help readers with buying decisions.

NOOKbook Bestsellers for the week of January 3 include: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand; Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep and Understand a Man by Steve Harvey; What the Night Knows by Dean Koontz; Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy Series No. 6) by Richelle Mead; and Zondervan’s New International Version of the Holy Bible.

Recent new release NOOKbook titles include: Three Seconds by Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom; Awakened (House of Night Series No. 8) by P.C. and Kristin Cast; Family Affair by Debbie Macomber; The Judas Gate by Jack Higgins; and Damage by John Lescroart.

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