Barnes & Noble Filing Shelf Registration For Shares Held By Vendex.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1997--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 that it is filing a shelf registration statement on Form S-3 with respect to all remaining 1,820,386 shares owned by Vendex International N.V. The shares being registered can be sold through means of underwritten offerings Underwritten offering A purchase and sale. or other market transactions. Barnes & Noble will receive none of the proceeds from any sales of shares being registered under the shelf registration. As of Feb. 1, 1997, the Company operated 431 Barnes & Noble "super" stores and 577 B. Dalton bookstores. Barnes & Noble stores offer an authoritative selection of more than 175,000 titles from more than 10,000 publishers with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. The company publishes books under the Barnes & Noble imprint im·print tr.v. im·print·ed, im·print·ing, im·prints 1. To produce (a mark or pattern) on a surface by pressure. 2. To produce a mark on (a surface) by pressure. 3. for exclusive sale through its retail stores and mail-order catalogs. Barnes & Noble is the exclusive bookseller in America Online's Marketplace and has plans to launch a World Wide Web site, operating the "world's largest bookseller online," shortly. CONTACT: Barnes & Noble Investor Contact: Irene R. Miller Vice Chairman, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. 212/633-3451 or Elizabeth Babin Vice President, Treasurer 212/633-3254 Media Contact: Lisa Herling V.P. Corporate Communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. 212/633-3379 |
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