Barnes & Noble Celebrates America 24/7 the Photographic Publishing Event of the Year.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2003 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) ): Book's Photographers Will Host Programs at 41 Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide on October 27 Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today an unprecedented series of author events on Monday, October 27, the publication date for DK Publishing's extraordinary photographic record of American life, America 24/7. On that same day, the book's photographers will host events at 41 Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country, from Anchorage to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Atlanta to 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 and Boston. The photographers include Pulitzer Prize Pulitzer Prize Any of a series of annual prizes awarded by Columbia University for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music. Fellowships are also awarded. winners (Khue Bui, Alex Garcia, Kim Komenich, and Rick Rickman), and many are affiliated with leading newspapers and agencies, including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, Times-Picayune, Contact Press Images and WorldPictureNews. America 24/7, a 320-page, large-format hardcover, features 1,100 digital photographs that 25,000 professional and amateur photographers shot during one week in May, creating a living portrait of our country. Rick Smolan and David Elliot Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , the innovative team behind the 1986 blockbuster, A Day in the Life of America, the best-selling photography book ever published, are the book's creators. America 24/7 can be pre-ordered at your local Barnes & Noble bookstore or on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com). "We are featuring America 24/7 as our top gift book for the holiday season," said Bob Wietrak, vice president of merchandising at Barnes & Noble, Inc. "It's the first massive use of digital photography in publishing, offers a customized dust jacket with your favorite image on it, and coincides with a traveling exhibition and a special display at the New York Public Library New York Public Library, free library supported by private endowments and gifts and by the city and state of New York. It is the one of largest libraries in the world. . It will be the year's most talked about book of photography." The book's purchasers can send their own digital image to the project's Web site, www.america24-7.com/customcover, and receive, for a nominal fee, a custom-made dust jacket for the book with their image on the front. America 24/7 is the first book in the largest collaborative photo project in U.S. history. DK Publishing will publish 50 subsequent hardcover books, one for each state, all to come out on the same day in September 2004. To find the nearest Barnes & Noble bookstore hosting America 24/7's local and professional photographers on October 27th, please visit our corporate Web site, http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com, or call your local Barnes & Noble store. 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 NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BNBN) (http://www.bn.com). Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 63 percent interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME GME granulomatous meningoencephalitis. GME Graduate medical education, see there ), 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. |
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