Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Barnes & Noble.com Presenting Sponsors of the First-Ever New Yorker Festival; Stores and Online Booksellers Celebrate Literary and Arts Festival.News/Lifestyle EditorsNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : BKS BKS Barracks BKS Best Kept Secret (gaming) BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German) BKS Brookside (city) BKS Bergen Kirurgiske Sykehus (Bergen, Norway) ), the nation's largest bookseller and Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN), one of the world's largest e-Commerce companies, today announced their participation as presenting sponsors for "The New Yorker Festival." This first-ever, three-day literary festival celebrates the 75th anniversary of the magazine with the individuals who have made The New Yorker famous: its writers, cartoonists, editors and the people they have written about. Interviews, readings, panel discussions, and performances will take place at clubs, theatres, restaurants and other venues throughout Manhattan, including Barnes & Noble stores. Barnes & Noble Participation Barnes & Noble has a long-standing relationship with the New Yorker. For the New Yorker Festival, Barnes & Noble stores in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. will be the exclusive location for book displays of works by New Yorker authors. Additionally, some Festival events will commence at stores, such as the architectural walk on May 6 at the Union Square store. Barnes & Noble.com, the official online source for the New Yorker Festival at (http://www.bn.com/festival), lists a complete schedule of festival events and is currently selling festival tickets. The site features the titles written by Festival authors, plus rich content such as archived chats, biographies and articles. During the celebration, customers can participate in a review section of the events on the site. Barnes & Noble.com will archive some festival events through audio clips. As presenting sponsors, Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Barnes & Noble.com will be prominently featured in advertisements, banners, posters, and other promotional materials for the festival. "Barnes & Noble and Barnes & Noble.com share a passion for the power of the written word with the New Yorker," said Carl Rosendorf, senior vice president, Barnes & Noble.com. "We are excited to join with the New Yorker to be a presenting Festival sponsor and continue our long-standing relationship with them." Event Schedule On Friday night, May 5th, Stephen King <noinclude></noinclude>
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Events on Saturday, May 6th, include New Yorker writers interviewing Paul Simon Noun 1. Paul Simon - United States singer and songwriter (born in 1942) Simon , Steve Earle Steve Earle (born Stephen Fain Earle January 17, 1955) is an American singer-songwriter, well known for his rock and country music, as well as for his many political views. He is also a published writer, a political activist and has written and directed a play. , Suzanne Farrell Suzanne Farrell (born August 16, 1945) one of the most noted ballerinas of the 20th century, and was an important dancer for the legendary choreographer George Balanchine. She was born Roberta Sue Ficker , V. S. Naipaul Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, KB, TC (b. August 17 1932, Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago), better known as V. S. Naipaul, is a Trinidadian-born British writer of Indo-Trinidadian descent, currently resident in Wiltshire. , Jon Stewart, Calvin Trillin, Kofi Annan, among others; panel discussions on business, politics, journalism, medicine, and writing; an architectural tour led by Paul Goldberger; and a New Yorker humor revue by Wendy Wasserstein at Town Hall. Sunday's programs include separate architecture, Broadway, cartoon, crime, film and jazz brunches with the appropriate journalists and prominent artists; an interview with Robin Williams, and free poetry readings in Bryant Park. For additional festival information, please visit www.bn.com/festival. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) operates 542 Barnes & Noble and 400 B. Dalton bookstores, and Babbage's Etc., one of the nation's largest operators of video game and entertainment software stores. Barnes & Noble stores stock an authoritative selection of book titles and provide access to more than one million titles. They offer books from more than 50,000 publisher imprints with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. Barnes & Noble is one of the world's largest booksellers on the World Wide Web (http://www.bn.com), and the exclusive bookseller on America Online (Keyword: bn). Barnes & Noble.com has the largest standing inventory of any online bookseller. Barnes & Noble also publishes books under its own imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores, mail-order catalogs, and Web site. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Web site: http://www.shareholder.com/bks/. About Barnes & Noble.com Since launching its online business in May 1997, Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) has become one of the world's largest Web sites and the fourth largest e-commerce site, according to Media Metrix. Focused largely on the sale of books, music, software, magazines, prints, posters and related products, the company has capitalized on the recognized brand value of the Barnes & Noble name to become the second largest, and one of the fastest growing, online distributors of books. Customers can choose from millions of new and out-of-print titles and enjoy a variety of related content such as author chats, book synopses and reader reviews. The site also offers thousands of bargain books discounted up to 91 percent, the most popular software and magazine titles, as well as gift items for every occasion. The company recently launched its Prints & Posters Gallery, a unique collection of images that can be produced on demand on museum-quality canvas or high-quality paper, and its eCards service, an exclusive selection of greeting card images that can be personalized and enhanced with animation and music. With access to Barnes & Noble's more than 750,000 in-stock titles, Barnes & Noble.com has the largest standing inventory of any online bookseller ready for immediate delivery. The URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , http://www.bn.com, makes the site easy to find. The Barnes & Noble.com affiliate network has more than 300,000 members and the company maintains strategic alliances with major Web portals and content sites, such as AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Lycos and MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). . The company is also a leader in business-to-business e-commerce with its unique Business Solutions program. |
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