Barnes & Noble to Host First Sarah Palin Book Signing for Going Rogue, Her Highly Anticipated Autobiography Sarah Palin to Visit Select Barnes & Noble Bookstores Nationwide

NEW YORK, Nov 09, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- --Locations Include Michigan, Virginia, Florida, Iowa, South Dakota, and Minnesota Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today that Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate, will kick off the book tour for her new autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, with a book signing at the Woodland Mall Barnes & Noble in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Ms. Palin will continue her tour at select Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide.

Going Rogue traces one ordinary citizen's extraordinary journey, and imparts Sarah Palin's vision of a way forward for America and her unfailing hope in the greatest nation on earth. Sarah Palin will sign Going Rogue at Barnes & Noble locations on the following dates: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 Sunday, November 22, 2009 Barnes & Noble at Woodland Mall Barnes & Noble Roanoke 3195 28th Valley View Mall Street SE 4802 Grand Rapids, MI 49512 Valley View Blvd NW 7:00 p.m. Roanoke, VA 24012 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Sunday, December 6, 2009 Barnes & Noble The Villages Barnes & Noble 1055 Old Camp Road Southern Hills Mall The 4400 Sergeant Villages, FL 32162 Road 4:00 p.m. Sioux City, IA 51106 Barnes & Noble at Colonial Plaza 1:00 p.m. Colonial Plaza Market Barnes & Noble at Sioux Falls Center 3700 West 41st Street 2418 East Colonial Drive Sioux Orlando, FL 32803 Falls, SD 57106 7:00 5:00 p.m. p.m. Monday, December 7, 2009 Barnes & Noble Mall of America 118 E. Broadway Mall of America Bloomington, MN 55425 12:00 p.m. About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 774 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 624 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and over 250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller brand for the sixth year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R). Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features hundreds of thousands of titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Customers can buy and read eBooks on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry(R) smartphones, as well as most Windows(R) and Mac(R) laptops or full-sized desktop computers.

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CONTACT: Barnes & Noble, Inc. Mary Ellen Keating, 212-633-3323 Corporate Communications [e-mail] or Barnes & Noble, Inc. Carolyn J. Brown, 212-633-4062 Corporate Communications [e-mail] Copyright Business Wire 2009 -0- KEYWORD: United States

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