Barnes & Noble, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2008 Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Webcast

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced the company will report first quarter 2008 earnings results on Thursday, May 22nd, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 AM ET on Thursday, May 22nd, 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 website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

Contacts

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