Barnes & Noble To Begin Shipping NOOK® HD and NOOK® HD+

NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc.

, announced today that it will begin shipping its highly anticipated NOOK HD and NOOK HD+, the lightest HD and full HD tablets this week. NOOK HD, which features the world's best 7-inch display, and the 9-inch NOOK HD+, more than 20 percent lighter and nearly half the cost of the leading full-size tablet, start arriving throughout the week to customers who pre-ordered the devices online at NOOK.com and in Barnes & Noble stores. This week both devices will roll out into Barnes & Noble's nearly 700 conveniently located stores for demonstration and purchase, and into 15,000 additional locations through leading