Cyber Monday Kicks Off Online Holiday Shopping at Barnes & Noble.com.Stephen Colbert's I Am America AM America was a morning news program that started in 1975 with Bill Beutel and Stephanie Edwards as co-hosts. Peter Jennings gave news reports throughout the program. British comedy troupe Monty Python made one of their earliest American television appearances on (and so Can You!), Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand, and the 2007 environmental series, Planet Earth, Among Most Popular Items Purchased by Barnes & Noble.com Customers 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, announced that Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com) kicked off the online holiday shopping season on Cyber Monday The name given by online retailers and e-commerce experts to the Monday following the Thanksgiving holiday. With its Black Friday counterpart in actual store-based traffic, analysts have pointed to significant spikes in online shopping on Cyber Monday. , November 26. Customers selected many items from Barnes & Noble's 2007 Holiday Gift Catalog, which contains the season's books, CDs, DVDs, calendars, gift items, toys, and video-games at up to 40% off list price. Cyber Monday kicked off special Barnes & Noble.com promotional offers. They include a free travel bag with a $75 purchase and up to 50% off certain DVDs. Some of the most popular products sold on Cyber Monday at Barnes & Noble.com included: * Shoppers can't seem to get enough of Stephen Colbert, making his book, I Am America (and so Can You!), one of the year's bestsellers. * My So-Called Life My So-Called Life is an American television teen drama created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz that aired on ABC from August 25, 1994, to January 26, 1995. - The Complete Series was a hit, dominating 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. sales and planting smiles on Claire Danes fans as they unwrap their presents on Christmas morning. * The unlikely pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss proved genius, with music enthusiasts propelling the Raising Sand collaboration to the top of the CD buying lists. * Nintendo Wii lovers throughout the country are welcoming the new era of gaming this season with Super Mario Galaxy  This article or section contains information about an unreleased video game.The content may change substantially as more information becomes available. , the bestselling video-game on the list. * Kids and geography buffs alike are making the entertaining and educational Scrambled States of America a top-selling game. * The first eight seasons of Seinfeld and dozens of movie favorites were among the bestselling DVD titles, which were 50% off. The most popular searches over the holiday weekend and on Cyber Monday were: * The 2007 series Planet Earth was one of the most-searched-for items, proving that the environment is top of mind for shoppers this season. * Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, James Taylor, Carrie Underwood and Celine Dion were among the most popular musicians searched. * Searches for Hairspray, the hit Broadway musical turned film, found itself amid good company this year. Other highly searched movies included Transformers, Star Wars and Ratatouille ra·ta·tou·ille n. A vegetable stew, usually made with eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, and onions, seasoned with herbs and garlic. [French, from alteration of toillier, touiller, . Barnes & Noble.com customers can place orders as late as December 18th and receive delivery by the 24th and still take advantage of free shipping when purchasing orders of $25 or more via "Fast & Free Delivery." Orders placed by noon EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy on December 20th using Next Day Air will arrive by December 24th. For customers in Manhattan, the popular Same Day Delivery service is also available through December 22nd; orders placed by 11 a.m. will be delivered by 7 p.m. that day. (NOTE TO EDITORS: High-Resolution Images and Online Screen Grabs Are Available) 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 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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