Barnes & Noble Carries on its NOOK Development into the UK, Declares Collaboration with Argos, Blackwell's and Foyles, To Provide Award-Winning NOOK® Products
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the biggest bookseller and significant shop of material, electronic media and academic items, these days declared relationships with significant suppliers in the UK such as multi-channel shop Argos, the top academic bookseller Blackwell's and award-winning separate book store Foyles. These significant suppliers can provide the extremely sought-after NOOK ebooks to reading and enjoyment fans in the UK this fall. These retail shop relationships are an essential part of Barnes & Noble's recently declared plans to flourish its award-winning, decorative NOOK items to large numbers of customers in the UK.
"Barnes & Noble's NOOK was blessed in and designed by a bookshop, so it is the perfect electronic reading system to be marketed by one"
"We're thrilled to perform with Argos, Blackwell's and Foyles to present our popular NOOK reading encounter to an even wider viewers in the U. s. Empire," said Jamie Iannone, Chief executive of Digital Products at Barnes & Noble. "Argos designed its brand on option and comfort, and with 90 percent of the inhabitants living within 10 kilometers of an Argos shop, this basically brings the NOOK encounter close to home for large numbers of UK customers. Blackwell's has designed a popularity on its wide range of headings and extremely experienced staff, much like Barnes & Noble, and we're satisfied to continue in our dedication to the education space. As London's biggest separate bookshop cycle, Foyles is a reliable name in guides and literary works in the UK, so we're satisfied to perform together to carry NOOK and our extensive electronic collection to people enthusiastic about guides and reading."
The retail shop associates will first offer Barnes & Noble's top-ranked line of E Ink® Visitors – NOOK Easy Touch™ and NOOK Easy Contact with GlowLight™ – in time for the holiday shopping season. NOOK will be supplied in more than 700 Argos stores, and plainly marketed through Argos' solid on the internet telephone collection beginning in Oct, providing customers easy and practical methods to learn about, try and buy NOOK items.
"As a significant shop of technological innovation items in the UK, our team of experts are always targeted on the best new items, so we are satisfied to associate with Barnes & Noble on the release of NOOK," said Andrew Hannan, Argos Trading Home. "From Oct, our customers will be able to buy NOOK on the internet in-store and we are sure it will be one of the must-have gadgets this Xmas."
The statement also represents relationships between significant bookselling suppliers in the U. s. States and the U. s. Empire. Blackwell's – the top UK shop of academic, professional and professional guides – will carry NOOK ebooks across an estate which provides 55 colleges and significant high roads national.
"Blackwell's is satisfied to declare our partnership with Barnes & Noble to carry NOOK to the UK," said Mark Prescott, Handling Home of Blackwell's Bookstores and On the internet. "It was critical to us that we found a system associate who recognized the specific needs of our customer groups. Barnes & Noble's bookselling skills, academic history and industry significant NOOK reading devices made them the excellent option for Blackwell's customers."
Foyles will carry NOOK to its six award-winning, globally well known London, uk and Bristol bookshops and its online shop, enabling people to discover, discover and buy extremely recommended NOOK items and material.
"Barnes & Noble's NOOK was blessed in and designed by a bookshop, so it is the perfect electronic reading system to be marketed by one," said Sam Husain, CEO of Foyles Bookstores. "Foyles is always looking for new methods to suggest guides to our customers and with NOOK, our booksellers now have fantastic components at hand to do so. NOOK is a industry head in eBook technological innovation we are satisfied to now be able to present to our customers."
Today's statement supports Barnes & Noble's dedication to present a good option in reading and product items for UK customers, growing the predicted number of UK retail shop stores to nearly 800, in addition to various significant online retail shop systems providing NOOK items and the organization's soon to release online store, www.nook.co.uk.
Barnes & Noble is a head in creating impressive items that provide the best electronic reading and enjoyment encounter for large numbers of customers these days. The award-winning NOOK Easy Contact – the easiest-to-use Audience with the best, most paper-like reading screen – and NOOK Easy Contact with GlowLight, which contributes an allocated and flexible light that's perfect with in the dark, are required to be available through significant UK suppliers beginning this fall.
Further product, costs and accessibility details will be declared in the fall. Commercial terms of the partnership have not been revealed.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
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Argos is part of Home Retail Group, the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.
Today Blackwell's has been trading for over 130 years from its world-famous flagship store on Broad Street in Oxford. Blackwell's booksellers are renowned for their expertise, depth of knowledge and love of books, a tradition which has been maintained since the first Blackwell shop opened its doors in 1879.
The Foyles ecommerce site www.foyles.co.uk has 15 million books and over 230,000 eBooks for sale, with live stock availability from all its bookshops and details of upcoming literary events and book signings. Website customers receive a 15% discount on their purchases, with free delivery in the UK to all stores and on orders of £10 and over.
Foyles was founded by brothers William and Gilbert Foyle in 1903 and became one of the most famous bookshops in the world. A multi-million pound refurbishment was completed in 2004. Well known for its breadth and range of stock and the expertise of its booksellers, Foyles bookshops remains family owned with Christopher Foyle as its non-executive Chairman. Sam Husain, only the second non-family CEO in Foyles' history, is working with his fellow executive directors and senior managers to maintain Foyles as a book lovers' destination of choice for the 21st century.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, operates 691 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 647 college bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through BN.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than 2.5 million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™ (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble's NOOK® eReading product offering, customers can buy and read digital books and content on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK devices, partner company products, and the most popular mobile and computing devices using free NOOK software. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring Top 100 Edition).General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
NOOK®, NOOK Tablet™, NOOK Simple Touch™ with GlowLight™, NOOK Simple Touch™, NOOK Color™, Reader's Tablet™, Best-Text™ Technology, VividView™, PagePerfect™, NOOK Store™, NOOK Bookstore™, NOOK Book™, NOOK Newsstand™, NOOK Magazine™, NOOK Newspaper™, NOOK Apps™, FREE NOOK Reading Apps™, NOOK Kids™, NOOK Digital Shop™, NOOK Cloud™, NOOK® for Web, Read In Store™, More In Store™, LendMe®, NOOK Books en español™, NOOK Study™, NOOK Library™, Lifetime Library™ and Read What You Love. Anywhere You Like™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners.
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About NOOK® from Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble's NOOK brand of eReading products makes it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to Barnes & Noble's expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 2.5 million digital titles, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices. NOOK Tablet™ is Barnes & Noble's fastest, lightest tablet with the best in entertainment from top services and everything you want in a tablet at a great value ($179 for NOOK Tablet – 8GB, and $199 for NOOK Tablet – 16GB). Both NOOK Tablet and the award-winning NOOK Color™ ($149) feature a stunning 7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen to read all of the content you love, shop popular apps, connect via e-mail, browse the Web and more. NOOK Simple Touch™ ($99) is the fastest, easiest to use reader with the world's best reading screen and the longest battery life and NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight™ ($139) features innovative lighting technology that makes it perfect for reading at bedtime and on the beach. Barnes & Noble offers NOOK owners Always Free NOOK Support in any of its nearly 700 bookstores, as well as free Wi-Fi connectivity to enjoy the Read In Store™ feature to read NOOK Books™ for free, and the More In Store™ program, which offers free, exclusive content and special promotions. Barnes & Noble was the first company to offer digital lending for a wide selection of books through its LendMe® technology, available through NOOK eReading products. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.nook.com, as well as at Best Buy, Walmart, Staples, Target, Radio Shack, Books-A-Million, OfficeMax, Fred Meyer, P.C. Richard & Son stores, Office Depot, Fry's Electronics, Kmart, hhgregg, Sears and Systemax Inc. retailers.
In addition to NOOK devices, Barnes & Noble makes it easy for customers to enjoy any book, anytime, anywhere with its Free NOOK Reading Apps™, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. Customers can use Barnes & Noble's free eReading software to access and read books from their personal Barnes & Noble digital library on devices including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android™ smartphones and tablets, PC and Mac®. Lifetime Library™ helps ensure that Barnes & Noble customers will always be able to access their digital libraries on NOOK products and software-enabled devices and BN.com. Barnes & Noble also offers NOOK Study™ (www.nookstudy.com), an innovative study platform and software solution for higher education, NOOK Kids™ (www.nookkids.com), a collection of digital picture and chapter books for children, and NOOK Books en español™ (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooksenespanol), the first-ever Spanish language digital bookstore in the United States.
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About Argos
Argos is the UK's leading multi-channel retailer, offering more than 33,000 products from around 750 stores throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland, online at www.argos.co.uk, over the telephone and uniquely, through Argos TV. Argos continues to be the UK's largest high street retailer online with over 430 million website visits annually. Argos serves around 130 million customers a year through its store network. In the financial year to February 2012, Argos sales were £3.9 billion and it employed some 31,000 people across the business.Argos is part of Home Retail Group, the UK's leading home and general merchandise retailer.
About Blackwell's
Blackwell's is the leading academic bookseller in the UK with shops serving 55 higher education institutions across England, Scotland and Wales. It has built an international reputation for bookselling excellence with links to academic institutions and libraries around the globe and has continued to expand its UK base on high streets and in university campuses up and down the country.Today Blackwell's has been trading for over 130 years from its world-famous flagship store on Broad Street in Oxford. Blackwell's booksellers are renowned for their expertise, depth of knowledge and love of books, a tradition which has been maintained since the first Blackwell shop opened its doors in 1879.
About Foyles
Foyles, award-winning National Bookseller of the Year and Children's Bookseller of the Year at this year's Bookseller Industry Awards, has bookshops located in the traditional home of bookselling on Charing Cross Road and in four other London landmark locations. Foyles at Royal Festival Hall opened in 2005, Foyles in St Pancras International and Foyles in Westfield London opened in 2008 and Foyles in Westfield Stratford City opened in November 2011. The first Foyles shop outside London for seventy years, Foyles Cabot Circus, opened in Bristol in March 2011.The Foyles ecommerce site www.foyles.co.uk has 15 million books and over 230,000 eBooks for sale, with live stock availability from all its bookshops and details of upcoming literary events and book signings. Website customers receive a 15% discount on their purchases, with free delivery in the UK to all stores and on orders of £10 and over.
Foyles was founded by brothers William and Gilbert Foyle in 1903 and became one of the most famous bookshops in the world. A multi-million pound refurbishment was completed in 2004. Well known for its breadth and range of stock and the expertise of its booksellers, Foyles bookshops remains family owned with Christopher Foyle as its non-executive Chairman. Sam Husain, only the second non-family CEO in Foyles' history, is working with his fellow executive directors and senior managers to maintain Foyles as a book lovers' destination of choice for the 21st century.