Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content,
digital media and educational products, today announced amazing new,
lowest-ever pricing on its award-winning NOOK Tablet and NOOK Color
devices, just in time for the back to school season. Starting today
customers can purchase the highly acclaimed NOOK Tablet starting at $179
and NOOK Color for $149 at all of Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700 stores
nationwide, online at NOOK.com and through the other leading retailers
offering NOOK® products.
Customers seeking a fast, lightweight tablet with an incredible 7-inch
VividView™ display and long-lasting battery life will love
the popular NOOK Tablet, now available at $179 for the 8GB model and
$199 for the 16GB version. NOOK Tablet offers access to the world’s
largest digital library of more than 2.5 million titles, popular movies,
TV shows, music and more, plus thousands of high-quality NOOK Apps™,
fast Web browsing, e-mail and expandable memory. NOOK Color provides
tablet essentials at a great value for only $149. The 7-inch device is
ideal for reading and exploring a variety of great content including
books, magazines, interactive children’s books, apps, access to top
video and music services, e-mail and Web browsing.
“Our Reader’s Tablets have consistently been the highest rated products
by the leading technology experts and now they're available for the
lowest prices ever,” said Jamie Iannone, President of Digital Products
at Barnes & Noble. “With NOOK Color for $149 and NOOK Tablet starting at
$179, customers can enjoy our best-in-class digital reading and
entertainment experience with an expansive selection of digital content
and apps at an unbeatable price.”
All NOOK customers can shop Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™
of more than 2.5 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy their
NOOK content across a wide array of popular devices. Barnes & Noble
offers always free in-store NOOKsupport for customers to set
up and learn how to use their new device face-to-face with friendly
neighborhood NOOKsellers.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of
content, digital media and educational products, operates 691 bookstores
in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 647 college bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its
online business through BN.com (www.bn.com),
one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than
2.5 million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks).
Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can
buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms,
including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular
mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software. 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).
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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Touch™, NOOK Color™, Reader’s Tablet™, Best-Text™ Technology,
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Newsstand™, NOOK Magazine™, NOOK Newspaper™, NOOK Apps™, FREE NOOK
Reading Apps™, NOOK Kids™, NOOK Digital Shop™, NOOK Cloud™, NOOK® for
Web, Read In Store™, More In Store™, LendMe®, NOOK Books en español™,
NOOK Study™, NOOK Library™, Lifetime Library™ and Read What You Love.
Anywhere You Like™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
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About NOOK® from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes 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 Barnes &
Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles,
and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices.
NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble’s fastest, lightest tablet with the best
in entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet
at a great value ($179 for NOOK Tablet – 8GB, and $199 for NOOK Tablet –
16GB). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($149) feature
a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the
content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web
and more. NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99) is the fastest, easiest to use reader
with the world’s best reading screen and the longest battery life and
NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight™ ($139) features patent-pending
lighting technology that makes it perfect for reading at bedtime and on
the beach. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in
any of its nearly 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi connectivity to
enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the
More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special
promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital
lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology,
available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes &
Noble stores and online at www.nook.com,
as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack,
Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores,
Office Depot, Fry’s Electronics, Kmart, hhgregg, Sears and Systemax Inc.
retailers.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers
to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its Free NOOK Reading Apps™,
available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and
read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices
including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets,
PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble
customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK
products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also
offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com),
an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education,
NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com),
a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK
Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol),
the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
For more information on NOOK devices and eReading software, updates, new
NOOK Book releases, Free Friday™ NOOK Books and more, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN
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