New Bookstore Debuts on November 4
NEW YORK, Oct 23, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, will
open a new bookstore on November 4 in the Monmouth Mall, at 180 Route
35, Eatontown, New Jersey. Concurrently, the Barnes & Noble in the
Consumer Center at 310 State Route 36 in West Long Branch will close.
The new store will stock close to 200,000 titles and include a cafe
serving Starbucks coffee. Special features will include a B&N@School
section with educational tools for parents, teachers and librarians. The
new Barnes & Noble at Monmouth Mall will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 10
a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. The store will employ approximately 75 people
from the community.
The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Barnes & Noble
at Monmouth Mall on Tuesday, November 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of
the Preview Night sales will benefit the Eatontown Board of Education. A
ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. Local youth groups will
give musical performances throughout the evening and Clifford the Big
Red Dog will be on hand to meet his fans.
Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller brand for the sixth 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(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R).
The new store will feature:
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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.
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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.
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Large-scale children's department. Bigger than most typical
bookstores and stocking more than 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse
environment, the "Barnes & Noble Jr." department is designed to appeal
to children, parents, teachers and librarians.
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Complimentary Wi-Fi Service. All Barnes & Noble bookstores
nationwide offer customers complimentary in-store Wi-Fi provided by
AT&T.
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Community Center. The 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 also will
hold fundraiser bookfairs to help support local schools and other
community institutions.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a
Fortune 500 company, operates 774 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes &
Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes &
Noble, also operates 624 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 sixth 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(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, which also features hundreds
of thousands of titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks).
Customers can buy and read eBooks on a wide range of platforms,
including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry(R) smartphones,
as well as most Windows(R) and Mac(R) laptops or
full-sized desktop computers.
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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SOURCE: Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Lenore Feder, 212-633-3379
Corporate Communications
lfeder@bn.com
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