Barnes & Noble Announces Gift Card Offer to Jump-Start Your Holiday Shopping

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), one of the nation's largest booksellers and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that customers who purchase $75 or more in Barnes & Noble Gift Cards will receive a free $10 gift card. This special, limited time offer is available at Barnes & Noble's nearly 700 stores nationwide and online at BN.com starting today through December 2, 2013. Now is a great time to stock up on Barnes & Noble Gift Cards, the perfect holiday gift for everyone in the family, and take advantage of this special offer of a free $10 gift card, which is redeemable starting December 26. Customers who take advantage of this special gift card offer in stores will receive their free gift card at the time of purchase. Customers who purchase gift cards online at BN.com will receive their free $10 eGift card via e-mail on December 26. For more information, customers can speak with a bookseller or visit bn.com/giftcards for details.

Barnes & Noble Gift Cards are the perfect gift for anyone on your holiday shopping list this year. In a recently commissioned survey* focused on consumer habits around holiday shopping, Barnes & Noble discovered that 55% of adults agree they like to receive gift cards as a holiday present. With a Barnes & Noble Gift Card, customers can choose from a wide selection of exciting products such as all the best books of the season including current bestsellers from popular authors, fun toys and games for kids and adults, DVDs, music, and other must-have electronics, exclusive gifts and unbeatable bargains. Customers can redeem gift cards at Barnes & Noble stores and online at BN.com.

Barnes & Noble Gift Cards are also redeemable for our entire line of NOOK Readers and tablets, including the newly announced NOOK GlowLight, our lightest Reader yet with a fresh, contemporary design, sharper text, perfectly lit pages and instant access to Barnes & Noble's massive selection of more than 3 million titles. Perfect for anyone who wants a pure, distraction-free reading experience, Barnes & Noble's new NOOK GlowLight is ad-free and available at a great value of just $119. Customers can also use Barnes & Noble gift cards to purchase exciting content from the NOOK Store including popular NOOK Books, digital magazines and newspapers, as well as apps, movies and TV shows for the highly acclaimed NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, Barnes & Noble's highly acclaimed 7- and 9-inch high definition tablets featuring Google Play. Barnes & Noble gift cards are now an even greater gift with the added value of a free $10 gift card, which is redeemable starting December 26. It's the perfect way to jump-start your New Year's reading list, or pick up the one gift you didn't receive this year.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company operates 674 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers award-winning NOOK products and an expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store (www.nook.com), while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 692 bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).

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About NOOK Media LLC

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to Read What You Love, Anywhere You Like with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to the expansive NOOK Store of more than 3 million (US) and 2.5 million (UK) digital books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through Free NOOK Reading Apps and NOOK Video Apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble's nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.nook.com, as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom at leading retailers; NOOK content can be purchased at www.nook.co.uk.

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*Barnes & Noble Holiday Survey was conducted by Russell Research. The study was conducted online from October 18-21, 2013, among 1,009 adults across the U.S.

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