Barnes & Noble Amends Shareholder Rights Plan to Enhance Shareholder Protections

(Press Release) New York, NY, October 29, 2010—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, today announced that its Board of Directors has amended the Company's Shareholder Rights Plan. The changes to the Rights Plan reflect input from the Company's shareholders and enhance shareholder protections under the Rights Plan by further restricting the accumulation of shares by grandfathered individuals and entities. Under the amended Rights Plan: