Countdown to Harry: Barnes & Noble Distribution Centers Begin Shipping Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by Caravan to Its Stores across the Country.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2003 The Largest Logistical lo·gis·tic also lo·gis·ti·cal adj. 1. Of or relating to symbolic logic. 2. Of or relating to logistics. [Medieval Latin logisticus, of calculation Operation in the Company's History; More Than One Million Copies Expected to Be Sold in the First Week 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, and Barnes & Noble.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BNBN) (www.bn.com) expect to sell more than one million copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by the end of its first week on sale. Barnes & Noble stores will begin selling the book at the stroke of midnight on Friday, June 20. Barnes & Noble has already received hundreds of thousands of pre-orders, and predicts the latest work from J. K. Rowling Joanne "Jo" Murray née Rowling OBE (born 31 July 1965),[2] who writes under the pen name J. K. Rowling,[3] is an English writer and author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. will be the bestselling book in its history. To meet this unprecedented demand, the company has mounted its largest logistical operation. Barnes & Noble's distribution centers are working around the clock to have Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ready for sale. In total, 1,755 tons of the new title have made their way into Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Barnes & Noble.com distribution centers where they are being repackaged, and a caravan caravan, group of travelers or merchants banded together and organized for mutual assistance and defense while traveling through unsettled or hostile country. of hundreds of trucks are delivering the book to stores and eventually to customers across the country. Due to the enormous orders for the book, Barnes & Noble began shipping two weeks in advance of the on-sale date to its stores where boxes will remain unopened until the new title officially goes on sale at midnight on Friday, June 20. The distribution centers at Barnes & Noble.com are equally busy preparing to ship the latest adventures of Harry Potter on Thursday, June 19, in order for their customers to begin receiving the book on Saturday, June 21, the first day it goes on sale. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the world's largest bookseller, operating 630 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 49 states. It also operates 245 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 business through Barnes & Noble.com (NASDAQ: BNBN) (http://www.bn.com) in which it owns an approximate 38 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 1,309 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. |
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