Barnes & Noble Announces The Initiation from L. J. Smith’s Secret Circle Series As the Latest Spotlight Pick
NOOKBookstore™ Will
OfferThe Initiation for Only 99 Cents for a
Limited Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content,
digital media and educational products, today announced that The
Initiation from L. J. Smith’s Secret Circle series will be
featured as the latest pick for “Barnes & Noble Spotlight” (www.bn.com/spotlight),
a NOOK Book™ program that features great writers at
irresistible prices. Twice a month, Barnes & Noble Spotlight picks an
author of a popular or breakout series from various genres and offers
one of their titles at a special price, helping NOOK® readers
discover new authors and dive into an exciting series for a
wallet-friendly price. From December 1 through December 14, Barnes &
Noble’s NOOK Bookstore will offer The Initiation from the
bestselling Secret Circle series for only 99 cents.
Forced to move from sunny California to dreary New England, 16-year-old
Cassie yearns for her old life back. As Cassie tries to adapt to her new
environment, she finds herself drawn to the in crowd at her new school
whom all share a secret-they are a coven of witches. As the members of
the circle convince Cassie to unlock her magic powers, they quickly
discover that Cassie allows them all to cast spells more powerful than
they could ever have imagined. With her newfound powers, Cassie must
choose whether to resist temptation or risk using dark forces that could
ultimately destroy her. The Initiation is the first of three
novels in the Secret Circle series that chronicle Cassie and the
circle’s advances into the world of witches and dark magic.
L. J. Smith is a New York Times bestselling author who has
written over two dozen books for young adults, including The Secret
Circle,The Vampire Diaries and Night World series. The
Secret Circle as well as The Vampire Diaries series have been
adapted into hit teen television series’. The first novel in The
Vampire Diaries series, The Awakening, was featured earlier
this year as a Spotlight pick.
Spotlight features titles from different genres including popular
romance, young adult and fiction. Customers who “like” NOOK on Facebook (www.facebook.com/nook)
and follow NOOK on Twitter (www.twitter.com/nookbn)
are among the first to hear about the Spotlight picks.
NOOK Books that are featured in Barnes & Noble Spotlight, along with the
more than 3 million other NOOK Books, magazines and newspapers
available, can be purchased and read on the award-winning NOOK line of
devices. All NOOK Books can also be read through a range of free NOOK
reading apps available for iPad™, iPhone®,
Android, Mac® and PC, and can be downloaded at www.bn.com/freenookapps.
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 674 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 Associates 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.
NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK
Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.
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Facebook (www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble)
and YouTube (www.youtube.com/barnesandnoble).
About NOOK Media LLC
NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million digital
books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the
ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through
free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading
retailers.
For more information on NOOK, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN
or www.twitter.com/nook_UK
and www.facebook.com/nook.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. Mary Ellen Keating, 212-633-3323 Corporate
Communications mkeating@bn.com or Carolyn
J. Brown, 212-633-4062 Corporate Communications cbrown@bn.com
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NOOK Bookstore™ Will Offer The Initiation for Only 99 Cents for a Limited Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that The Initiation from L. J. Smith’s Secret Circle series will be featured as the latest pick for “Barnes & Noble Spotlight” (www.bn.com/spotlight), a NOOK Book™ program that features great writers at irresistible prices. Twice a month, Barnes & Noble Spotlight picks an author of a popular or breakout series from various genres and offers one of their titles at a special price, helping NOOK® readers discover new authors and dive into an exciting series for a wallet-friendly price. From December 1 through December 14, Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Bookstore will offer The Initiation from the bestselling Secret Circle series for only 99 cents.
Forced to move from sunny California to dreary New England, 16-year-old Cassie yearns for her old life back. As Cassie tries to adapt to her new environment, she finds herself drawn to the in crowd at her new school whom all share a secret-they are a coven of witches. As the members of the circle convince Cassie to unlock her magic powers, they quickly discover that Cassie allows them all to cast spells more powerful than they could ever have imagined. With her newfound powers, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk using dark forces that could ultimately destroy her. The Initiation is the first of three novels in the Secret Circle series that chronicle Cassie and the circle’s advances into the world of witches and dark magic.
L. J. Smith is a New York Times bestselling author who has written over two dozen books for young adults, including The Secret Circle, The Vampire Diaries and Night World series. The Secret Circle as well as The Vampire Diaries series have been adapted into hit teen television series’. The first novel in The Vampire Diaries series, The Awakening, was featured earlier this year as a Spotlight pick.
Spotlight features titles from different genres including popular romance, young adult and fiction. Customers who “like” NOOK on Facebook (www.facebook.com/nook) and follow NOOK on Twitter (www.twitter.com/nookbn) are among the first to hear about the Spotlight picks.
NOOK Books that are featured in Barnes & Noble Spotlight, along with the more than 3 million other NOOK Books, magazines and newspapers available, can be purchased and read on the award-winning NOOK line of devices. All NOOK Books can also be read through a range of free NOOK reading apps available for iPad™, iPhone®, Android, Mac® and PC, and can be downloaded at www.bn.com/freenookapps.
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 674 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 Associates 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.
NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their respective owners.
Follow Barnes & Noble on Twitter (www.bn.com/twitter), Facebook (www.facebook.com/barnesandnoble) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/barnesandnoble).
About NOOK Media LLC
NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access to the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million digital books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps. NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and online at www.nook.com, as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading retailers.
For more information on NOOK, follow us on www.twitter.com/nookBN or www.twitter.com/nook_UK and www.facebook.com/nook.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Mary Ellen Keating, 212-633-3323
Corporate Communications
mkeating@bn.com
or
Carolyn J. Brown, 212-633-4062
Corporate Communications
cbrown@bn.com
Source: Barnes & Noble, Inc.