Barnes & Noble to Open New Store At 81 Fortune Drive Irvine, California; New Bookstore Debuts On November 13.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 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, will open a new 29,500-square-foot bookstore on November November: see month. 13 in the Irvine Spectrum Center at 81 Fortune Drive, Irvine, California Irvine is an incorporated city in Orange County, California, United States. It is a planned city, mainly developed by the Irvine Company since the 1960s. Formally incorporated on December 28 1971, the 69.7 square mile (180.5 km²) city has a population of 202,079 (as of 2007). . Concurrently, the existing store at 31 Fortune Drive will close. The new store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and magazine titles and include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee. The new Irvine Barnes & Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day, and employ approximately 65 people from the community. The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Irvine Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, November 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit Read Orange County. Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations have established it as the number-one operator of retail bookstores in America. Its innovations include: - The Readers' Advantage membership program. Designed for Barnes & Noble's best customers, this program gives members an additional 10 percent off everything they buy. The annual fee is $25. - Rapid special-order service. Special orders have been commonplace in bookselling, but Barnes & Noble's new service takes it to new heights in terms of selection and speed of delivery. Its booksellers are able to instantly access the real-time inventory of every title in the company's distribution network, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the availability of virtually any book in print at the click of a button. With more than one million titles available, Barnes & Noble stocks more books than any competing retail or online bookseller, and substantially more titles than even the largest book wholesalers. - Large-scale children's departments that are bigger than most typical bookstores. Stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, Barnes & Noble Junior departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. - The RedDotNet revolutionary music sampling system. The store's music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening technology, enabling customers to listen to any CD and sample up to 200,000 music titles in the store by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic music catalog, the store's listening stations make "browsing with your ears" a reality. - The Discover Great New Writers program. The leader in discovering new writers, the Discover program, now in its 13th year, has an unparalleled record of finding tomorrow's literary stars from today's publishing newcomers. Over the years, Discover has prominently featured and promoted such writers as Frank McCourt, Jonathan Franzen, Laura Hillenbrand, Hampton Sides and Tracy Chevalier. "We have become the market leader because of our unparalleled selection, service, convenience and the most sophisticated inventory systems in all of bookselling," said Mitchell Mitchell, city (1990 pop. 13,798), seat of Davison co., SE S.Dak.; inc. 1881. Mitchell is a trade, distribution, and shipping center for a dairy and livestock area. Klipper, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Barnes & Noble, Inc. "Our new rapid special-order systems enable us to offer our customers the largest selection and fastest delivery of any bookseller. In short, if we don't have it on our shelves, we'll get it for you and offer the convenience of in-store pickup Pickup A gain in yield made by selling one bond and buying another. Also referred to as "yield pickup." Notes: When the present yield is relatively low compared to the longer-term yields, pickups will be done by investors trying to increase the yield and duration of their or home delivery." Store manager Patty Turrell said, "Bookselling is a very local business. Underlying our success is our expertise at tailoring the selection of every store to the community it serves. I have the ability to order the books my customers need and adjust the selection to the lifestyles and interests of this community." About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 606 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 286 B. Dalton Dalton, city (1990 pop. 21,761), seat of Whitfield co., extreme NW Ga., in the Appalachian valley; inc. 1847. It is a highly industrialized city in a farm area. 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 e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. 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 GME granulomatous meningoencephalitis. GME Graduate medical education, see there ), the nation's largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,128 stores. General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials. |
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