Barnes & Noble.com Opens Multi-Media Holiday Gift Center With Enhanced Consumer Selection and Service

Business Wire, Dec 1, 2000

Business Editors, Holiday Shopping Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 1, 2000

Harry Potter, Beatles Anthology and Ken Burns' Jazz

Among Popular Selections

New DVD & Video Store Offers Holiday Blockbusters

Barnes & Noble.com (Nasdaq:BNBN) (www.bn.com) opened the doors to its full-service Holiday Gift Center today. With a variety of online features, including its Gift Finder collections with hundreds of great gift ideas, and the creation of the Harry Potter and Grinch stores, Barnes & Noble.com offers customers many ways to find the perfect gift this holiday season.

The Harry Potter Store offers great gift ideas:

-- Four-volume Harry Potter box set (Years I-IV)

-- Exclusive art-quality canvas prints of the first three Harry Potter book
covers.

-- Harry Potter figurines, collectibles, calendars, stationery and bookmarks.

The Kids Store includes:

-- Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie tie-in videos and

classic Dr. Seuss books, software and videos.

Barnes & Noble.com's top selling gifts are available in all categories:

-- Books: Coffee table books The Beatles Anthology, Life: Our

Century in Pictures, the National Audubon Society's Sibley Guide

to Birds and Vanity Fair's Hollywood. Other book titles include

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik,

Building Big by David MacCaulay and the cookbook Mexico One Plate

at a Time.

-- Music: CD box sets including The Eagles' Selected Works

1972-1999, Stevie Ray Vaughan's SRV and Ken Burns' Jazz. Other

selections include Beatles 1, the Backstreet Boys' Black and

Blue, Enya's A Dream Without Rain and holiday albums Dream a

Dream by Charlotte Church, Three Tenors Christmas and Ally

McBeal: A Very Ally Christmas.

-- DVD & Video: Gladiator, a two-DVD set, including commentary by

the director Ridley Scott. Also Toy Story 1 & 2, and Jurassic

Park & Lost World: Collector's Edition and Chicken Run. TV box

sets of The X-Files (second season), The Sopranos (first season)

and the PBS Civil War series.

-- Gifts for Readers: Booklights and Bookmarker pens lead the way

this holiday season.

-- Calendars: More than 2,500 titles in this year's Calendar

superstore including bestsellers Harry Potter, Who Moved My

Cheese? and the 2001 Far Side Gallery Off-the-Wall Calendars.

Other features for the holidays include:

-- Best of 2000 Collection featuring editors picks of the best

books, music, video and software titles of the year.

-- The Signed and Limited Edition Store featuring signed collector's

editions of the season's best fiction.

-- Holiday Gaming Center featuring the best software games for the

holiday season and the strategy guides to winning.

-- The Martha Stewart Store featuring all Martha Stewart's titles.

Additional site features include:

-- Gift Finder: Barnes & Noble.com editors' recommend the season's

best products based on the occasion, the person for whom

customers are buying and their interests.

-- Wish List: While shopping for family and friends, customers can

now add items they like to their personal Wish List and then buy

them when the time is right.

-- Your Shopping Cart: Your Shopping Cart enables customers to keep

a running total of their purchases and further speeds the

shopping and selection process. The visual shopping cart feature

remains on the page throughout a customer's shopping experience.

-- Gifts and Calendars Store: This area offers customers gift

services such as Gift Certificates, board games and card games,

stocking stuffer ideas, holiday gift wrap and eCards.

Barnes& Noble.com customers can place orders until December 18 and receive packages in time for the holidays.

About Barnes & Noble.com

Barnes & Noble.com is an Internet commerce company offering a comprehensive range of books and related information products. With more than five million unique visitors per month to its Web site, the company has the largest audience reach of any brick and mortar company with an Internet presence. It stocks the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles, supplemented by more than 20 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare and used book dealers. Its college textbook store offers a vast selection of new and used textbooks and its recently introduced eBookStore has established the company as a leader in the delivery of digital content and intellectual property.

Barnes & Noble.com's excellence in e-commerce extends to the music business, where it was cited by Forbes.com as the No. 1 music site on the Web, for being "best-of-class for anyone who wants to learn about the music they're buying." The company's product ranges now include a full complement of information products, including DVD, video, software and PC games.

The company's focus on information products is manifest in its recently launched Barnes & Noble University, a distance learning forum offering free classes. Ranging from "Introduction to Programming" to "Introduction to XML" to "The Night Sky: An Introduction to Astronomy"" to "Walking through Shakespeare," Barnes & Noble University has quickly established itself as a leading Internet hub for learning and community.