Barnes & Noble Stores Nationwide to Offer Complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi In-Store Access to Over 700,000 eBooks On World’s Largest eBookstore

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NEW YORK, JULY 28, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world’s largest bookseller,
announced today a strategic agreement with AT&T that will provide complimentary
in-store Wi-Fi to any customer that visits a Barnes & Noble bookstore
nationwide. All customers shopping in Barnes & Noble stores can now freely
download and preview any of the over 700,000 eBook titles with hundreds of
thousands of public domain titles available from Google. The company said its
number of eBook titles is expanding everyday and expects to hit the one million
mark soon.

“Barnes & Noble pioneered the concept of retail stores as community centers,”
said Steve Riggio, CEO of Barnes & Noble, Inc. “By providing no-fee Wi-Fi
access, we are not only meeting our customers’ needs, but extending the sense of
community that has always been in our stores.”

Mr. Riggio added, “This is a natural progression of our digital strategy to
provide customers with more choices in how, when and where they want to read.”

The existing AT&T Wi-Fi network at Barnes & Noble has been available to
customers since 2005. Now, anybody walking into a Barnes & Noble store anywhere
in the country will have complimentary and unlimited access to the network at
all store locations.