Barnes & Noble Announces Fourth Quarter and 2007 Fiscal Year End Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Webcast

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced the company will report fourth quarter and 2007 fiscal year end earnings results on Thursday, March 20th, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 AM ET on Thursday, March 20th, to review the company’s financial results and operations.

This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Barnes & Noble, Inc.’s corporate website at www.barnesandnobleinc.com/webcasts. The webcast of this call will be archived and available at www.earnings.com.

ABOUT BARNES & NOBLE, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 798 bookstores in 50 states. For the fourth year in a row, the company is the nation’s top bookseller brand, as determined by a brand’s overall strength based on its combination of familiarity, quality and purchase intent, according to the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web’s largest e-commerce sites.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company’s corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Contacts

Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Director of Corporate Communications
Carolyn Brown, 212-633-4062
cbrown {at} bn(.)com
or
Director of Investor Relations
Andy Milevoj, 212-633-3489
amilevoj {at} bn(.)com