Barnes & Noble.com Makes Last Minute Shopping Easier; Free Shipping on Orders of $25 or More In Time for Christmas

Business Wire, Dec 16, 2003

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 16, 2003

Next Day Delivery to East Coast Cities, Same Day Delivery in Manhattan

To help shoppers with the holiday rush, Barnes & Noble.com (NASDAQ: BNBN) (www.bn.com) is offering a new Faster Delivery service for orders to many East Coast locations. Orders placed by 11 a.m. ET are delivered on the next business day and delivery is free for orders of $25 or more.

Holiday shoppers who need to send last-minute gifts to family and friends on the East Coast can use the Barnes & Noble.com Faster Delivery service and have packages delivered in time for Christmas. Faster Delivery is available to qualifying locations for orders placed up until 11 a.m. ET on Tuesday, December 23, with packages arriving in time for Christmas. Customers who use Barnes & Noble.com Same Day Delivery service in Manhattan can place orders up until 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, December 24, and still receive orders in time for Christmas. All orders of $25 or more are delivered for free. (For qualifying East Coast zip codes and other details, please visit www.bn.com.).

And for those shoppers who wait until the very last minute, Barnes & Noble.com online gift certificates are available for purchase and can be emailed as late as December 25.

About Barnes & Noble.com

Barnes & Noble.com is a leading Internet-based retailer of books, music, DVD/video and online courses. Since opening its online store (www.bn.com) in March 1997, Barnes & Noble.com has attracted more than 15.8 million customers in 230 countries. Barnes & Noble.com's bookstore includes the largest in-stock selection of in-print book titles with access to approximately one million titles for immediate delivery, supplemented by more than 30 million listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare and used book dealers. Barnes & Noble.com offers its customers fast delivery, easy and secure ordering, and rich editorial content.