Barnes & Noble, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2003 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Webcast.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2003

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the company will report third quarter earnings results on Thursday, November 20th after the market closes. The company will host an investor conference call at 11:00 AM ET on Friday, November 21st, to review the company's financial results and operations.

This call is being webcast by CCBN and can be accessed at Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s investor relations home page at www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials. The call will be archived for two weeks on Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s Web site.

ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 634 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 234 B. Dalton Bookseller stores, primarily in regional shopping malls. The company offers titles from more than 50,000 publisher imprints, including thousands of small, independent publishers and university presses. It conducts its e- commerce business through Barnes & Noble.com (NASDAQ: BNBN) (http://www.bn.com).

Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 63 percent interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME), the nation's largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,393 stores.

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