Barnes & Noble's 2008 Holiday Book Drive Collects More Books Than Ever Before.More Than 1.2 Million Books Donated To Nonprofit Organizations, Schools, Libraries And Literacy Partners All Across The Country Additional 100,000 Books Donated to First Book NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- 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 world's largest bookseller, announced today that it collected and donated more than 1.2 million books during its 2008 Holiday Book Drive. With the help of enthusiastic booksellers and generous customer donations, Barnes & Noble was able to collect more books to help needy children in communities across the country than ever before. In addition, Barnes & Noble, together with subsidiary Sterling Publishing, donated another 100,000 books to First Book, a nonprofit providing new books to children in need, addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy - access to books. "Every year we receive so many wonderful compliments from customers, booksellers, and especially from recipient organizations about our Holiday Book Drive," says Sarah DiFrancesco, director of Community Relations 1. The relationship between military and civilian communities. 2. Those public affairs programs that address issues of interest to the general public, business, academia, veterans, Service organizations, military-related associations, and other non-news media entities. . "We could not continue this program without the passion of our booksellers, or the generosity of our customers." Community partners who have already begun distributing the books collected by Barnes & Noble booksellers include schools, libraries, social service organizations, Boys & Girls Clubs, Big Brothers Big Sisters organizations, Reach Out and Read, United Way, and the Salvation Army Salvation Army, Protestant denomination and international nonsectarian Christian organization for evangelical and philanthropic work. Organization and Beliefs The Salvation Army has established branches in 100 countries throughout the world. . Other local recipients include Book Showers for Literacy in Illinois, Childhood Leukemia Hospital for Children in Virginia, Deer Valley Unified School District Deer Valley Unified School District (or DVUSD) is a school district headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. DVUSD the largest school district in the state of Arizona and serves a portions of northern Phoenix, Glendale, and Peoria. Title One Schools in Arizona, Family Services of Western Pennsylvania Western Pennsylvania consists of the western third of the state of Pennsylvania in the United States. Pittsburgh is the largest city in the region, with a metropolitan area of about 2.4 million people, and is the cultural center for Western Pennsylvania. , Help Me Grow of Northwest Ohio Northwest or northwestern Ohio consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders Lake Erie, southern Michigan, and eastern Indiana. Some areas in northwestern Ohio are also considered the Black Swamp area. , Literacy Inc. of New York, Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter, Oklahoma Community Action, Project Flight Buffalo, School on Wheels in California, and The Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. in Colorado. For a complete listing of recipient organizations, please go to the "Community" pages in the "Our Company" section on the Barnes & Noble, Inc. website www.barnesandnobleinc.com. The Barnes & Noble Holiday Book Drive invited customers to purchase books for donations at Barnes & Noble bookstores all across the country between November 1, 2008 and January 1, 2009. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 799 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble is also the nation's top bookseller in quality, and for the fifth year in a row, the top bookseller brand, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent, 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. 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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