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March Madness at NOOK®: Announcing Special Limited Time NOOK Book™ Deals to Coincide with the Tourna

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March Madness at NOOK ® : Announcing Special Limited Time NOOK Book ™ Deals to Coincide with the Tournament of Books

NOOK-Sponsored Tournament Features Bracket-Style Competition with Popular Books Going Head-to-Head Until One Is Crowned the Winner

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, is offering a special limited time deal on select NOOK Books to coincide with the annual Tournament of Books. The competition, in which two works of fiction from 2012 go head to head each day, is run by The Morning News (www.themorningnews.org/tob), an online magazine of essays, art and humor. It features judges and publishing industry experts picking a winner each day until one book is crowned the champion. The Tournament of Books NOOK offer features discounted bestselling titles from competing authors and judges, including The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter, Ticknor by Sheila Heti and more, available in the NOOK Store™starting at just $2.99. The offer runs until Friday, March 29. For more information, customers can visit Bn.com/tournamentofbooks.

“We’re excited to sponsor this year’s Tournament of Books because it’s an innovative way to help fans to interact and get excited about some of the best works of fiction from the previous year,” said Jim Hilt, Vice President of eBooks at NOOK Media LLC. “Through our NOOK Book offer, we are generating more excitement about the tournament by offering customers many of the featured authors’ and judges’ books at even lower prices on NOOK devices and through NOOK.com.”

“From the beginning, NOOK by Barnes & Noble was a natural fit for us as a presenting sponsor of the Tournament of Books,” said Rosecrans Baldwin, co-founder of the Tournament of Books. “At the most basic level, the event celebrates discovering excellent new works of fiction. Barnes & Noble’s passion for new literature, whether it’s in the Barnes & Noble Review or the Discover Great New Writers program, seemed to just match with why we started the Tournament in the first place.”

The tournament, now in its ninth year, starts out with 16 great works of fiction. Each day, two books go head to head with the winner decided by different judges within the publishing industry. Along the way, each judge reveals his or her biases and interests, any connections they have to the participating authors, and, most importantly, how they decided between the two …read more
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Barnes & Noble Announces NOOK® HD+ Special Limited Time Offer: Purchase the Critically Acclaimed NOO

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Barnes & Noble Announces NOOK ® HD+ Special Limited Time Offer: Purchase the Critically Acclaimed NOOK HD+ and Get a FREE NOOK Simple Touch ™

Everything That Customers Want in a Full HD Tablet Plus a FREE NOOK Simple Touch E Ink ® Reader, a $79 Value

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that customers who purchase a NOOK HD+ between March 24, 2013, and March 31, 2013, will receive a free NOOK Simple Touch E Ink reader, a $79 value. This special limited time offer is available at all the nearly 700 Barnes & Noble retail stores nationwide, hundreds of Barnes & Noble College Bookstores and online at www.nook.com. The offer is also available between March 24, 2013, and March 30, 2013, through other leading retailers offering NOOK® products, including Walmart.com, Target and Best Buy. This is the perfect way to experience all that NOOK has to offer, combining NOOK HD+, the lightest full 9-inch HD tablet ever invented, with a free NOOK Simple Touch, the highly acclaimed and easy-to-use E Ink reader.

“By offering a free NOOK Simple Touch with the purchase of NOOK HD+, customers can fully experience all that the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million titles has to offer,” said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products at NOOK Media LLC. “NOOK HD+, with its must-see full HD 9-inch screen, is perfect for experiencing movies, apps, magazines and more, while NOOK Simple Touch is ideal for reading millions of books with crisp, clear text on a portable and lightweight device that’s comfortable to hold for hours.”

NOOK HD+ delivers extraordinary experiences in the areas that tablet owners use most. The reading experience is unmatched, offering beautifully rendered text, magazines in spectacular HD and lightning fast page turns. The fully laminated display reduces glare and provides excellent viewing angles, perfect for personal or shared viewing. At only 18.2 ounces (515 grams), NOOK HD+ is the lightest full HD tablet ever invented and features great battery life and expandable memory for even more storage. NOOK HD+ is available for $269 (16GB) and $299 (32GB), and is now an even better value with a free NOOK Simple Touch E Ink reader, a $79 value.

NOOK HD+ is packed full with great tablet features, including:

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Are E-commerce Sales Really So Good?

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Research firm comScore reported about 2012 that:

For the full year, U.S. retail e-commerce sales reached $186.2 billion, an increase of 15 percent — the strongest annual growth rate since before the recession. Q4 2012 sales grew 14 percent year-over-year to $56.8 billion, marking the first ever $50 billion quarter. It also represents the thirteenth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth and ninth consecutive quarter of double-digit growth.

As an aside, it is worth noting that Amazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) sales for the past full year were $51.7 billion, up 23%, which colors the national numbers in a way that makes e-commerce sales outside Amazon less positive.

Even without the Amazon-effect, e-commerce has been less successful than many people suppose. Sales per quarter in 2007 averaged $30 billion and grew at a rate of more than 20%. The average sales by quarter in 2012 were about $48 billion on average. The positive change is only 60% over the five years, which is hardly a torrid pace.

E-commerce is supposed to be the salvation of the retail industry, although the salvation has been uneven. Experts says that companies such as Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) and Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) have been ruined. Online sales have augmented the advance of other retailers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).

E-c0mmerce sales improvement actually may slow considerably in the years ahead. Among the reasons are that bricks-and-mortar retailers have learned the tricks of price matching and free overnight delivery. These retailers always will retain the benefit that some people want to see and feel what they buy before they buy it.

The other enemy of e-commerce is that its success has been so uneven. For every Amazon there is a Best Buy, or worse, a J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) where online sales are actually shrinking. The future of e-commerce can be seen in both its victories and its mediocre, or failed, results.

E-commerce may have been the “next big thing” for a while. It future will be much more mixed.

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