Barnes & Noble Booksellers & Customers Donate More Than 1.5 Million Books to Children in Need via Annual Holiday Book Drive
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest retail
bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and
educational products, today announced that it collected and donated more
than 1.5 million books to more than 650 local charities across the
country that provide services to children during its 2015 Holiday Book
Drive program.
The donation was made possible through the generous support of Barnes &
Noble customers and booksellers who purchased books for donation at
Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide between November 1, 2015, and
January 1, 2016. Community partners have already begun distributing the
books collected by Barnes & Noble booksellers to hospitals, children’s
learning and advocacy centers, literacy organizations, and social
service organizations.
“Our annual Holiday Book Drive is one of our favorite community
relations initiatives,” said Sarah DiFrancesco, Vice President, Business
Development for Barnes & Noble. “An honored tradition for more than 20
years, our booksellers and stores have partnered with a wonderful array
of local charities, that they chose, and donated thousands of books to
local children in need. On behalf of Barnes & Noble, I want to thank our
customers and booksellers who have reflected the spirit of the
generosity. Thanks to their efforts and kindness, millions of children
across the country received the gift of reading.”
Local recipients of books from the Holiday Book Drive include: St.
Jude’s Children’s Hospital; Toys for Tots; Big Brothers Big Sisters; the
YMCA; Salvation Army; First Book; Children’s Hospitals from around the
nation; Reach Out & Read; Ronald McDonald House; Head Start; United Way
Children’s Advocacy Center; Texas Boys Ranch; and hundreds of other
deserving organizations.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company, the nation’s
largest retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital
media and educational products. The Company operates 647 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
features more than 4 million digital books in the US (www.nook.com)
and UK (www.nook.co.uk),
plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, 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®.
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Contacts
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Mary Ellen Keating, (212) 633-3323
Senior
Vice President
Corporate Communications
mkeating@bn.com
or
Alan
McNamara, (212) 633-4062
Director
Corporate Communications
amcnamara@bn.com
