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Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 5080 Riverside Drive Macon, Georgia.


New Bookstore Debuts on March 19

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
 -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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BKS Bildung, Kultur Und Sport (German)
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), the world's largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore on March 19 in The Shoppes at River Crossing at 5080 Riverside Drive A number of cities around the world have a Riverside Drive.

In the United States:
  • Riverside Drive (Anderson, California)
  • Riverside Drive (Asotin County, Washington)
  • Riverside Drive (Austin, Texas)
  • Riverside Drive (Bandon, Oregon)
, Macon, Georgia. Concurrently, the existing store at 265 Tom Hill Senior Boulevard 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 Macon Barnes & Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, and employ approximately 60 people from the community.

The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Macon Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, March 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit the Bibb bibb  
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, Monroe and Jones counties public schools' media centers. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. with The Telegraph columnist Ed Grisamore. A string trio A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. The earliest string trio form consisted of two violins and cello, a grouping which had grown out of the baroque trio sonata.  from Central High School will perform from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by the Freedom Jazz Trio The term trio in jazz usually refers to a group comprising a pianist, a double bass player and a drummer. The pianist is usually considered the leader of these trios, and trios are usually named after their pianist. , made up of students from Mercer University Mercer University is a private, coeducational, faith-based university with a Baptist heritage, located in the U.S. state of Georgia.

Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts,
, from 7 to 9 p.m. Storyteller Rob Cleveland will perform African folk tales throughout the evening. Curious George Curious George

inquisitive, mischievous monkey. [Children’s Lit.: Curious George]

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 will be on hand to meet his fans.

On Thursday, March 20, at 3 p.m., local author Jacquelyn Cook will be on hand to sign copies of her latest book, Sunrise.

On Saturday, March 22, at 2 p.m., inspirational speaker An inspirational speaker is a term used to describe those that address audiences with the aim of inspiring the listeners to higher values or engendering understanding about life and themselves.  Johnnie Goolsby will be on hand to discuss and sign copies of her latest book, Stone the Builders Rejected.

On Saturday, March 29, at 2 p.m., local author Cliff Chandler will be on hand to discuss and sign copies of his latest book, Motherless Child.

Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations have established it as America's top bookseller brand. For the fourth year in a row, the EquiTrend[R] Brand Study by Harris Interactive Harris Interactive (NASDAQ: HPOL) is an American market research company that specializes in public opinion research using both telephone and surveys on online panels. The company is the product of a 1996 merger between the Gordon S. Black Company and Louis Harris & Associates. [R] named Barnes & Noble bookstores number one in overall brand equity, which is based on a brand's strength in familiarity, quality and purchase intent. The new store will feature:

* The Barnes & Noble Membership Program. Designed for Barnes & Noble's best customers, this program gives Members 40% off hardcover fiction and nonfiction bestsellers, 20% off all other adult hardcover books, and 10% off virtually everything else in Barnes & Noble stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com. The annual fee is $25.

* Rapid special-order service. Can't find it on the shelf? Barnes & Noble's massive warehouse inventory is available in real-time, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the availability of over one million titles at the click of a button.

* Large-scale children's departments. Bigger than most typical bookstores and stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, "Barnes & Noble Jr." departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. Children's story hours will be held three times a week.

* Advanced technology music-listening and movie-previewing system. The store's music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening and previewing technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store, sampling up to 270,000 music titles 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. Thanks to the latest technology, RedDotNet stations also allow customers to view a three-minute clip of up to 60,000 DVDs.

* Giant Newsstand. The store's newsstand stocks over 2,000 titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines and out-of-town newspapers.

* Wi-Fi Service. AT&T Wi-Fi(SM) service allows customers to use their laptop computers and personal digital assistants anywhere in the store or cafe to communicate online, surf the Internet and connect to corporate networks at speeds 50 to 100 times as fast as a dial-up connection. A single two-hour session costs $3.95, and an annual membership with unlimited access to Barnes & Noble and more than 50,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots hot spots

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 is also available.

* Community Center. The Barnes & Noble store will serve as a local community center, hosting a number of community events throughout the year. They will include author readings and discussions, book clubs, and programs with local literary and cultural organizations. The store will also hold bookfairs, partnering with local schools and other community institutions. For more information, please contact Cindy Daniel Cindy Daniel, (born May 6, 1986 in Montreal, Canada) is a Canadian singer. She is well known in the French-Canadian public, mostly in the province of Quebec, where she started her career.  at (478) 474-0161.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 798 bookstores in 50 states. For the fourth year in a row, the company is the nation's top bookseller brand, as determined by a brand's overall strength based on its combination of familiarity, quality and purchase intent, according to the EquiTrend[R] Brand Study by Harris Interactive[R]. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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