Barnes & Noble, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year End 2004 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Webcast.

NEW YORK -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the company will report fourth quarter and fiscal year 2004 earnings results on Thursday, March 17th, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 11:00 AM ET on Thursday, March 17th, to review the company's financial results and operations.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s corporate Web site at www.barnesandnobleinc.com/webcasts. The webcast of this call will be archived and available at www.fulldisclosure.com.

ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 839 bookstores in 50 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, 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 and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. Its subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,100 new titles a year and has an active list of over 5,000 titles.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com.