Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 633-3300 Fax: (212) 352-3660 http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com
Barnes & Noble, Inc. was incorporated in Delaware in 1986. The Company operates as a bookseller. The Company’s main business is the sale of trade books (generally hardcover and paperback consumer titles, excluding educational textbooks and specialized religious titles), mass market paperbacks (such as mystery, romance, science fiction and other popular fiction), children’s books, bargain books, magazines, gift, café products and services, music and movies direct to customers. It conducts the online part of its business through barnesandnoble.com llc (Barnes & Noble.com). The Company’s subsidiary Sterling Publishing is a publisher of non-fiction trade titles, with more than 5,000 books in print. Founded in 1949, Sterling publishes a range of non-fiction and illustrated books, consisting mainly of subjects such as crafts, food and wine, mind/ body/spirit, photography, puzzles and games, current affairs and children’s books. Sterling also publishes books for a number of brands, including many of the Hearst magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan, Hasbro, The American Museum of Natural History, and AARP. Sterling’s mission is to publish high-quality books that educate, entertain, and enrich the lives of its readers. Among its best-selling titles are Paul McKenna’s I Can Make You Thin, the Windows on the World Complete Wine Course from renowned wine expert Kevin Zraly, Peter Yarrow and Lenny Lipton’s Puff, the Magic Dragon, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species: The Illustrated Edition (Edited by David Quammen), and Cosmopolitan’s The Cosmo Kama Sutra. With over 40 years of bookselling experience, management has a strong sense of customers’ changing needs and the Company leads book retailing with a ‘community store’ concept. Barnes & Noble’s typical store offers a comprehensive title base, a café, a children’s section, a music/DVD department, a magazine section and a calendar of ongoing events, including author appearances and children’s activities, which make each Barnes & Noble store an active part of its community. The Company's store features an authoritative selection of books, ranging from 60,000 to 200,000 titles. The Company continues to develop and introduce new product line extensions, such as proprietary gifts, and Barnes & Noble @ School, providing education tools for teachers, librarians and parents. These offerings and services have helped to make many of the stores neighborhood institutions. The Company’s DVD selection is focused on foreign films, documentaries and episodic TV shows. The book business is highly competitive in every channel in which Barnes & Noble competes. The Company competes with bookstores including Borders Group, Inc. (Borders) and Books-A-Million and smaller format bookstores such as Waldenbooks. B. Dalton Bookseller, Sterling Publishing, Lark Books, Quamut and SparkNotes are some Company-owned servicemarks registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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