New Fun Games Now Available At Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced that ThinkFun Centers are now in over 360 Barnes & Noble stores all across the country. ThinkFun is a leading manufacturing of fun games for children and adults that challenge the mind and provide hours of enjoyment. ThinkFun games are also available on Barnes & Noble.com(www.bn.com).

“Intellectually stimulating games for children and adults have become more popular with our customers,” said Steve Riggio, chief executive officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc. “Our game business has seen double-digit growth over the last three years, and ThinkFun will add 40 new stimulating and enjoyable games to our game assortment. I’m convinced that these new ThinkFun Centers will be a great success in our stores.”

“Barnes & Noble has smart customers, and we have the mind-challenging games they like to play,” said Bill Ritchie, chief executive officer of ThinkFun, Inc. “Sometimes the mind wants to be stimulated, and you can’t beat a good book or a mind-challenging game. Now, customers are going to be able to pick up both at the same time.”

The bestselling games now available at Barnes & Noble are:

• Rush Hour ($15.95), the traffic-jam puzzle that has already sold nearly four million units worldwide
• River Crossing ($14.95), the multi-challenge plank puzzle game
• Oodles of Doodles ($19.95), a family game that is a combination of “Pictionary” and “Outburst”
• Aha! Brainteasers ($19.95), which provides a new twist on some of the world’s best brainteasers
• Smart Mouth ($14.95), a fast-paced, hilarious word game, and
• The Fifteen Puzzle ($9.95), an elegantly crafted, polished metal and decorative enamel version of the original 1880 numeric slider puzzle.

The ThinkFun Center, a stand-alone fixture, also has a hands-on display that allows Barnes & Noble customers to experience the game before they buy it.

About Barnes& Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 841 bookstores in 49 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation’s top retail brand for quality, according to the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®. Barnes & Noble conducts its e-commerce business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), which is ranked fifth in traffic among retailers with their own Web site, according to Media Metrix, and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey. In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. Its subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles.

Barnes & Noble also has approximately a 63 percent interest in GameStop (NYSE: GME), the nation’s largest video-game and entertainment-software specialty retailer with 1,603 stores.

General financial information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the Internet by visiting the company’s corporate Web site: http://www.barnesandnobleinc.com/financials.