Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 6510 North Illinois Street Fairview Heights, Illinois.New Bookstore Debuts on March 7 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 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 bookstore on March 7 in The Shoppes at St. Clair Square at 6510 North Illinois Street, Fairview Heights, Illinois Fairview Heights is a city in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,034 at the 2000 census. Geography Fairview Heights is located at (38.593899, -89.996649). . The 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 caf[R] serving Starbucks coffee. The Fairview Heights Barnes & Noble, will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Sunday. The Barnes & Noble Caf[R] will open at 8 a.m. every day. The new store will employ approximately 100 people from the community. The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Fairview Heights Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, March 6, from 6 to 10 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit the library of Holy Trinity Catholic School. A book-opening ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. with Gail D. Mitchell, mayor of Fairview Heights; Marian Crosby, principal of Holy Trinity Catholic School; students from the school; and Barnes & Noble booksellers. Each participant will open a copy of his or her favorite book, symbolically opening the store. Clifford the Big Red Dog and Winnie the Pooh will be on hand to meet their fans. Barnes & Noble's bookselling innovations have established it as America's top retail brand for quality. For the fifth 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 number-one in quality among the country's retail brands. 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 non·fic·tion n. 1. Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction. 2. The category of literature consisting of works of this kind. 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 twice a week. * Advanced technology music-listening system. The store's music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store, sampling up to 200,000 music titles by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic music catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , the store's listening stations A listening station is a facility established to monitor radio and microwave signals and analyse their content to secure information and intelligence for use by the security and diplomatic community and others. make "browsing with your ears" a reality. * 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 A portable computer that has a flat LCD screen and usually weighs less than eight pounds. Often called just a "laptop," it uses batteries for mobile use and AC power for charging the batteries and desktop use. Today's high-end laptops provide all the capabilities of most desktop computers. and personal digital assistants anywhere in the store or caf[R] 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 10,700 AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. is available for $19.95 per month (with a one year commitment). About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 801 bookstores in 50 states. For the fifth year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. 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 and the number one online bookseller for quality among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com. |
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