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 the best Black Friday deals on the
season’s hottest reading and entertainment products, including
unbelievable Black Friday weekend specials on NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK
HD tablet. These exclusive NOOK offers are available online at bn.com/nook
starting Thursday, November 28, and in Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700
stores nationwide starting on Black Friday, November 29, through Sunday,
December 1, while supplies last. With these never-before-seen NOOK
offers, now is the perfect time to get great values on the must-have
gifts for everyone in the family this holiday season.
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NOOK Simple Touch Available for Only $39: The top-rated NOOK
Simple Touch eReader will be available for just $39, our lowest price
ever, making it a must-have deal this holiday season for anyone who
loves to read, with access to more than 3 million books in the NOOK
Store®.
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Lowest Prices Ever for NOOK HD Tablet: The highly acclaimed
NOOK HD tablet will be available starting at just $79, combining the
best of reading and entertainment with apps, interactive books, access
to the Google Play store, the best in movies and TV shows and more.
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Biggest Deals on the Best NOOK Books: NOOK customers will also
enjoy the biggest deals on the best NOOK Books with at least 50
percent off savings on hundreds of bestselling NOOK Books like John
Grisham’s Sycamore Row, Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, E L
James’ Fifty Shades of Grey series, Cheryl Strayed’s Wild,
Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs, and many more. The biggest deals
on the best books are available at www.bn.com/biggestdealsbestnookbooks
starting Black Friday, November 29, through January 13.
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“Treat Yourself” with Great NOOK Books Under
$2.99: Starting November 29, customers can take advantage of hot
NOOK Books for only $2.99. Popular titles include Plum Lucky by
Janet Evanovich, The Cider House Rules by John Irving, Crewel
by Gennifer Albin, and many more. This special promotion on the
best NOOK Books at unbeatable prices continues in the NOOK Store
through December 31.
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NOOK Accessories: The stylish and functional Industriell cover
for NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch® GlowLight®
is available for just $10 through December 2. Customers can also enjoy
a 25% discount on NOOK HD accessories and essentials including covers,
the Power Kit for NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, and Screen Film Kits for NOOK
HD. These great deals on NOOK accessories are available in stores and
online through December 1.
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Exclusive Offer with Download of Free NOOK Reading App™:
First-time NOOK customers who download any Free NOOK Reading App
will receive a free NOOK Book, Twas the Night Before Christmas,
along with a selection of exciting sample content and magazine titles.
In addition to these great deals, customers can take advantage of many
other exciting Barnes & Noble Black Friday specials, which start online
at www.bn.com/blackfriday
on Thursday, November 28, and in stores Friday, November 29, including:
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The Best Educational Toys & Games: Customers who visit any
Barnes & Noble store or BN.com during Black Friday weekend can get an
incredible “buy one get one 50 percent off” deal on any educational
toy or game.* This amazing offer on the best educational
toys and games is available in stores through Sunday, December 1, and
online through Monday, December 2.
*Excludes Lego Mindstorms EV3 and LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra Kids’ Learning
Tablet. Other exclusions apply online. Visit www.bn.com/toys
for more details.
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Boxed Sets Featuring Bestsellers, Cookbooks, and More: Shoppers
can enjoy 50 percent off select boxed sets of popular bestselling
series like Game of Thrones, Fifty Shades of Grey, and
inspirational titles from Annie Lamott. Also available at 50 percent
off is an exclusive Ender’s Game boxed set, and a set of
cookbooks from the Pioneer Woman. These exciting offers end December 2.
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Bestselling and Classic Books: Customers can get 50 percent off
select popular fiction, nonfiction, cookbooks and gift book titles,
including Giada De Laurentiis’ Giada’s Feel Good Food,
Behind the Scenes at Downton Abbey, Guinness World
Records 2014, Sports Illustrated Baseball’s Greatest,
Humans of New York and more. In addition, all Barnes & Noble
Collectible Editions are available in a “buy one get one for only $10”
offer. These exceptional book offers are available through December 2
in stores and online.
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Kids & Teens Books: Shoppers can get 50 percent off select
titles in stores and online, including The 5th Wave by Rick
Yancey, James Patterson’s bestselling Middle School Series, The
LEGO Ideas Book, and more. These incredible offers on the hottest
books for kids and teens are available through December 2 in stores
and online.
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DVD & Blu-ray Titles: Customers can get up to 50 percent
off a selection of more than 1,000 DVD and Blu-ray bestsellers and new
releases in stores and online through December 2. Key titles include House
of Cards, Star Trek Into Darkness, Skyfall, Despicable
Me, and many more.
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Home and Gift: Shoppers can save 30% off Barnes & Noble’s
entire new line of exclusive limited-edition, 100% cotton throws
including “Bah Humbug” featuring lines from A Christmas Carol.
In addition, customers can enjoy an incredible “buy two get one free”
offer on all Moleskine products. Both offers are available in stores
and online through December 2.
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Special Gift Card Offer: Any customer who purchases $75 in
Barnes & Noble Gift Cards will get a free $10 Barnes & Noble Gift
Card. This special offer ends Monday, December 2.
*Free $10 promotional Barnes & Noble Gift Card can be redeemed starting
December 26.
Additional Black Friday offers available to customers through Monday,
December 2, include:
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Lap Desks: Get 30% off Smart Media Lap Desks and Brookstone
Comfort Lap Desks.
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Boxed Calendars: Get 50 percent off select boxed calendars in
stores and online.
Customers can also experience the newly announced NOOK GlowLight™,
Barnes & Noble’s lightest eReader yet, at bn.com/nook
or the NOOK Digital Shops™ and displays in any of Barnes &
Noble’s nearly 700 bookstores nationwide. NOOK GlowLight features 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. Barnes & Noble Members can save
an additional 10 percent on the new NOOK GlowLight with their Membership
cards through December 31. Barnes & Noble offers Always Free NOOK Supportin all of its neighborhood bookstores, with more than 40,000
booksellers across the country ready to assist customers with setting up
their NOOK devices or choosing their next great read.
For more information, visit www.bn.com/blackfriday.
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 673 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 695 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).
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
NOOK®, NOOK Store®, NOOK Video™, and
NOOK Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.
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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.
For more information on NOOK, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN
or www.twitter.com/nook_UK
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