Barnes & Noble Announces Fiscal 2019 Year-End Earnings Release Date

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) today announced the Company
will report fiscal 2019 fourth quarter and year-end earnings results on
Wednesday, June 19, before the market opens. In light of today’s
announcement that the Company is being acquired by Elliot, the Company
will not host a conference call to discuss the results.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is the nation’s largest retail
bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media and
educational products. The Company operates 627 Barnes & Noble bookstores
in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
The Nook Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and
eReaders and an expansive collection of digital reading and
entertainment content through the NOOK Store®. The NOOK Store (www.nook.com)
features digital books, periodicals and comics, and offers the ability
to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through Free
NOOK Reading Apps™ available for Android™, iOS® and Windows®.

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained by visiting
the Company’s corporate website at www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

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Contacts

Media:
Mary Ellen Keating
Senior
Vice President
Corporate Communications
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
(212)
633-3323
mkeating@bn.com

Investors:
Andy Milevoj
Vice
President
Investor Relations and Corporate Finance
Barnes &
Noble, Inc.
(212) 633-3489
amilevoj@bn.com