Barnes & Noble Publishes Weird U.S. the New Bestseller from the Authors of Weird N.J.

NEW YORK -- Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide To America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets Will Be Available at Barnes & Noble This October

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the publication of Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets by Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman (published by Barnes & Noble Books, $19.95), the authors of 2003's runaway hit, Weird N.J.: A Travel Guide to New Jersey's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Barnes & Noble Books, $19.95). Weird U.S. will be available at all Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide and online at Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com) in October.

"What began as a hobby for New Jersey authors Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman turned into a bestselling magazine and book," said Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. "After the success of Weird N.J., people all across the country wrote to the authors with strange tales and legends from their own state. The best of them are collected in Weird U.S., a book that celebrates what's weird and strange in all 50 states and Puerto Rico."

Weird U.S. is a travel guide unlike any other. The authors pack the book with ghost stories, mysteries, local oddities and legends: an ax-wielding man in a rabbit costume in Virginia, shoe salesman Mahlon Haines' Pennsylvania home shaped like a tremendous shoe, cannibal albino villages, forgotten tunnels leading to Hell, local heroes and menacing specters from all over the nation. Hundreds of tales and legends and photos fill the pages of this truly remarkable American guide.

To enjoy an unforgettable book, stop by any Barnes & Noble and pick up a copy of Weird U.S. To share and post weird tales of your own, go to the Weird U.S. Web site, (www.WeirdUS.com).

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 841 bookstores in 49 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 e-commerce business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), which is ranked fifth in traffic among retailers with their own Web site, according to Media Metrix, 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 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles.

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 1,603 stores.

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