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Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a Fortune 500 company, is the world’s largest bookseller and the nation’s highest-rated bookselling brand.  The company is a leading content, commerce and technology company that provides customers easy and convenient access to books, magazines, newspapers and other content across its multi-channel distribution platform.  As of October 27, 2012, the company operates 689 retail bookstores in regional shopping malls, major strip centers and freestanding locations in 50 states, and 674 college bookstores serving more than 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. 

We pioneered the concept of the book superstore, combining vast inventory selection in books, music, DVD and magazines with comfortable ambiance.  Our cafés and local marketing programs have made our bookstores anchors in their communities and great places to spend leisure time.

Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com, one of the Web’s largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than 3 million titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks).  Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers, devices from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software. 

Through its Sterling Publishing subsidiary, the company publishes over 500 titles annually, under a variety of imprints including Sterling, Sterling Children’s Books and Barnes & Noble Classics.

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