Barnes & Noble to Open New Store at 911 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

New Bookstore Debuts on August 13

NEW YORK -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore on August 13 in Towne Place at Garden State Park at 911 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a cafe serving Starbucks coffee. The new Cherry Hill 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 70 people from the community.

The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Cherry Hill Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, August 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit the Camden County Family Support Organization, which assists families with children who have behavioral or mental health issues. Singer, songwriter and South New Jersey native Matt Duke will provide musical entertainment. The Camden County Youth Partnership will read poetry. The Cherry Hill Public Library will host a special Storytime with crafts. AnnT Cori the Clown will perform magic tricks and make balloon animals, and Curious George will be on hand to meet his fans.

Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller in quality, and for the fifth year in a row, the top bookseller brand, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality and purchase intent, according to the EquiTrend([R]) Brand Study by Harris Interactive([R]). 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 department. Bigger than most typical bookstores and stocking more than 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, the "Barnes & Noble Jr." department is designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. An expanded educational resources section will feature workbooks and classroom resource materials for teachers and parents. Children's Storytime will be held three times a week.

* Advanced technology movie, audiobook and music-previewing system. The store will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening and previewing technology. RedDotNet enables customers to preview select DVDs, Blu-ray Discs, audiobooks or CDs in the store, sampling a title by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company's online electronic 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 more than 7,000 DVDs. Additional music titles are available for special order.

* Giant Newsstand. The store's newsstand stocks more than 1,800 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 also is available.

* Community Center. The 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 also will hold bookfairs, partnering with local schools and other community institutions. For more information, please contact Linda A. King at [phone].

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 800 bookstores in 50 states. The company is the nation's top bookseller in quality, and for the fifth year in a row, the top bookseller brand, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on 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: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.