Barnes & Noble Sponsors The Dobbs List, a Weekly Book Segment, On CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline; The Dobbs List Featured in Barnes & Noble Stores and on Barnes & Noble.com.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced its sponsorship of The Dobbs List on CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline.

This weekly book segment, with books personally picked by Mr. Dobbs, will air every Thursday. The Dobbs List is also featured at Barnes & Noble bookstores across the country and on Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq: BNBN) (www.bn.com). In addition, Mr. Dobbs will appear at New York City Barnes & Noble stores, times and stores to be announced at a later date.

"We are honored to have this opportunity to work with Lou Dobbs, one of the most respected news anchors in the world and with CNN's Lou Dobbs Moneyline, the premier business program in broadcasting," said Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. "The books he recommends will be of interest to all of us."

"We're delighted to work with Barnes & Noble to bring this new feature to the Moneyline audience, the most demanding and sophisticated audience in television," said Lou Dobbs. "The Dobbs List will give our busy viewers a sense of the very best that publishers have to offer, and will help them with selections that will give the best return for the investment of their scarce reading time."

Mr. Dobbs' first selections are:

-- Richard Brookhiser's America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918

-- James Carville and Paul Begala's Buck Up, Suck Up...and Come Back When You
Foul Up

-- Jim Collins' Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others
Don't

-- Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day's Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch
in the American Southwest

-- Brian Haig's Mortal Allies.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 599 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 298 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 (http://www.bn.com) in which it owns a 36 percent interest.

Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 60 percent interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME), the nation's largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,038 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.