Barnes & Noble Announces Fiscal 2013 Second Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call Webcast16:00 EST Tuesday, November 13, 2012 NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced the company will report fiscal 2013 second quarter earnings results on Thursday, November 29th, before the market opens. The company will host an investor conference call at 10:00 AM eastern time on Thursday, November 29th, to review the company's financial results and operations. This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed at Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s corporate website at www.barnesandnobleinc.com/webcasts. The webcast of this call will be archived and available at www.earnings.com. About Barnes & Noble, Inc. Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company operates 689 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com). Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com), while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 667 bookstores serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be named a J.D. Power and Associated 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. Barnes & Noble, Inc.Director of Corporate CommunicationsCarolyn J. Brown, 212-633-4062cbrown@bn.comorVice President, Investor RelationsAndy Milevoj, 212-633-3489amilevoj@bn.com