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To: Oeconomicus who wrote (3585)	4/28/1998 5:20:00 PM
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barnesandnoble.com Now Offers Online the World's Largest Standing Inventory of Book Titles; 600,000 Different Titles Available To Be Shipped within 24 Hours barnesandnoble.com NEW YORK (April 28) BUSINESS WIRE -April 28, 1998--barnesandnoble.com, the world's largest online bookseller, today announced that its state-of-the-art distribution center now stocks 600,000 different book titles, the world's largest standing online inventory. These in-stock titles from over 30,000 publishers, including thousands of small, independent publishers and university presses, are available to be shipped within 24 hours. "In little over a year, we have achieved our goal of providing visitors to our site with the largest number of book titles that can be quickly delivered of any online bookseller," said Steve Riggio, vice chairman of Barnes and Noble Inc. "Our online inventory continues to grow, almost daily. The unlimited shelf space of our Web site enables us to offer and promote an increasing number of titles that are not widely available. It's truly amazing the kinds of books you can now find on barnesandnoble.com." From university presses, barnesandnoble.com now stocks, for example, more than 900 different titles from the Louisiana State University Press and more than 500 titles from the University of Michigan Press. Small, independent publishers include Steerforth (52 titles), Counterpoint Press (60 titles), and MacMurray & Beck (23 titles). Technical publishers now include more than 900 Blackwell Science titles and more than 4,000 titles from Reed Elsevier. The online inventory also strives to stock every work in print from an author's canon. For example, it includes 38 different works by Octavio Paz, the recently deceased Nobel Prize author. About barnesandnoble.com barnesandnoble.com is a leading retailer of books and the exclusive bookseller to American Online(AOL)'s 12 million subscribers (keyword: barnes and noble). barnesandnoble.com also has exclusive partnerships with more than 6,000 Web sites through its "Affiliate Network," including CNN Interactive, Disney, Lycos, and ZDNet. barnesandnoble.com continues to bring bookselling innovation to the Internet. It was the first online bookseller to offer deep discounts and the first to carry an extensive inventory on its shelves. Currently, the company stocks more than 600,000 titles in its state-of-the-art distribution center, which is the largest standing inventory of any bookseller online. About Barnes & Noble Inc. Barnes & Noble Inc. operates 481 Barnes & Noble bookstores and 520 B. Dalton bookstores. Barnes & Noble stores offer an authoritative selection of more than 175,000 titles from more than 10,000 publishers with an emphasis on small, independent publishers and university presses. The company also publishes books under the Barnes & Noble imprint for exclusive sale through its retail stores and nationwide mail-order catalogs. barnesandnoble.com General financial information on Barnes & Noble Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's investor relations Web site: shareholder.com. -0- kvc/ny* CONTACT: Ben Boyd (212) 414-6014 bboyd@bnweb.com KEYWORD: NEW YORK INDUSTRY KEYWORD: RETAIL PUBLISHING INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PRODUCT Today's News On The Net - Business Wire's full file on the Internet with Hyperlinks to your home page. URL: businesswire.com