New York, NY - May 5, 2010 - Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced today the BN Bookstore app for iPhone and iPod touch is the winner of a Webby People's Voice Award. Chosen by the global Web community, the BN Bookstore app is the year's best app in the Mobile Marketplace & Services category.
The BN Bookstore app for iPhone and iPod touch users enables customers to easily place orders for books, movies, and CDs. The app also lets users search millions of products simply by snapping a photo. Using the iPhone's camera, customers can snap a photo of the front cover and within seconds get product details, editorial reviews, and customer ratings - even find and reserve a copy in the nearest store.
The Webby Awards is the Internet's most respected symbol of success. This year, more than 700,000 votes were cast by people around the world for their favorite sites, videos, and ads in The Webby People's Voice Awards. The awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 U.S. states and over 60 countries around the world. The online community determines the winners of The People's Voice by voting for the nominated work that it believes to be the best in each category.
Hailed as the "Internet’s highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile websites.
"The Webby Awards honors the very best of the Internet," said David-Michel Davies, executive director of The Webby Awards. "Barnes & Noble's win is a testament to the skill, ingenuity, and vision of the application's creators."
"We are honored that our Bookstore app for the iPhone and iPod touch has been recognized by the customers who use and enjoy it," said Jamie Iannone, Executive Vice President, Product/Shopping for Barnes & Noble.com and B&N Digital. "This popular free app extends the BN.com and in-store shopping experience to the mobile world, helping customers find great books, movies and CDs, buy them online or reserve them at their nearest Barnes & Noble store."
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About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 723 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 639 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and over 250,000 faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is the nation's top bookseller brand for the seventh year in a row, as determined by a combination of the brand's performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than one million titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Barnes & Noble customers can buy and read eBooks on the widest range of platforms, including NOOK(TM) by Barnes & Noble, eBook readers from partner companies, and hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices using free BN eReader software.
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About The Webby Awards:
Hailed as the "Internet's highest honor" by The New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites. Established in 1996, the 14th Annual Webby Awards received nearly 10,000 entries from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Sponsors and Partners of The Webby Awards include: Microsoft Expression; AOL; YouTube; Pepsi; Aquent; HP; Yahoo!; Corbis; Tribal DDB Worldwide; East Media; IDG; PricewaterhouseCoopers; 2advanced.Net; KobeMail; Museum of the Moving Image; Behance; Business Insider; Time Out New York; paidContent and The Guardian.
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