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Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, will open a new bookstore on September 5 in Northgate Mall at 301 Northeast Northgate Way, Seattle, Washington. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a café serving Starbucks coffee. The store’s café will accept fax orders for food and beverages and have them ready to pick up. The new Northgate Barnes & Noble will be open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday and employ approximately 60 people from the community. The public is invited to a Preview Night Party at the new Northgate Barnes & Noble on Tuesday, September 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. A portion of the Preview Night sales will benefit the KCTS Read to Me and Ready to Learn literacy programs. Dogs from the Reading with Rover program, which encourages children to develop reading skills by reading aloud to dogs, will be on hand. Fellow canine, costumed character Clifford the Big Red Dog, will also be on hand to meet his fans. The Pacific Science Center will demonstrate science experiments for children. Musical entertainment will be provided by Around the Sound Community Band at 6 p.m. and Simple Measures at 8 p.m. Cranium game stations will be available throughout the evening and raffle prizes will be provided by Jones Soda and Seattle Children’s Theatre. On September 29 at 5 p.m., the new Northgate Barnes & Noble will host a special viewing of portions of Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, The War, which documents stories from World War II. A panel of World War II veterans will be on hand to share their stories and answer questions. Barnes & Noble’s bookselling innovations have established it as America’s top bookseller brand. For the fourth year in a row, the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive® named Barnes & Noble bookstores number one in overall brand equity, which is based on a brand’s strength in familiarity, quality and purchase intent. The new store will feature: The Barnes & Noble Membership Program. Designed for Barnes & Noble’s best customers, this program gives Members 40% off hardcover fiction and nonfiction bestsellers, 20% off all other adult hardcover books, and 10% off virtually everything else in Barnes & Noble stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com. The annual fee is $25. Rapid special-order service. Can’t find it on the shelf? Barnes & Noble’s massive warehouse inventory is available in real-time, enabling its booksellers to order and confirm the availability of over one million titles at the click of a button. Large-scale children’s departments. Bigger than most typical bookstores and stocking over 15,000 titles in an easy-to-browse environment, “Barnes & Noble Jr.” departments are designed to appeal to children, parents, teachers and librarians. Children’s Storytime will be held once a week. Advanced technology music-listening system. The store’s music department will feature RedDotNet, the most advanced listening technology. RedDotNet enables customers to listen to any CD in the store, sampling up to 200,000 music titles by simply passing it under a scanner. Connected to the company’s online electronic music catalog, the store’s listening stations make “browsing with your ears” a reality. Giant Newsstand. The store’s newsstand stocks over 2,000 titles, including hundreds of hard-to-find specialty magazines and out of town newspapers. Wi-Fi Service. AT&T Wi-FiSM service allows customers to use their laptop computers and personal digital assistants anywhere in the store or café to communicate online, surf the Internet and connect to corporate networks at speeds 50 to 100 times as fast as a dial-up connection. A single two-hour session costs $3.95, and an annual membership with unlimited access to Barnes & Noble and more than 10,700 AT&T Wi-Fi hot spots are available for $19.95 per month (with a one year commitment). Community Center. The Barnes & Noble store will serve as a local community center, hosting a number of community events throughout the year. They will include author readings and discussions, book clubs, and programs with local literary and cultural organizations. The store will also hold bookfairs, partnering with local schools and other community institutions. For more information, please contact Cynthia Williams at (206) 417-2973. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 793 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®.
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