Barnes & Noble to Present at the Prudential Equity Group Retail Conference.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2004

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced the company will host an investor presentation at the Prudential Equity Group Retail Conference on January 13th, 2004 at 10:00 am Eastern.

This presentation is being webcast by Wall Street Transcript and can be accessed at Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s investor relations home page at www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials. The presentation will be archived for two weeks on Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s Web site.

ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 646 Barnes & Noble stores in 49 states. It also operates 231 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 (NASDAQ: BNBN) (http://www.bn.com).

Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 65% interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME), the nation's largest video game and entertainment software specialty retailer with 1,472 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.