Barnes & Noble Launches "The B&N Podcast"

New Podcast Features In-Depth Conversations with Today's Most Popular Authors Including John Grisham, Paula Hawkins, Imbolo Mbue, Colson Whitehead, and More

Podcast Available Today on BN.com, iTunes App Store and Stitcher

Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS, the world's largest bookseller, today launched "The B&N Podcast," featuring in-depth conversations with today's most popular authors including Peter Gethers, John Grisham, Paula Hawkins, Imbolo Mbue, J. Courtney Sullivan, Colson Whitehead, and more. The Barnes & Noble Podcast goes behind the scenes with today's most interesting writers, exploring what inspires them, their methods and what they were thinking when they wrote their books.

The B&N Podcast is available for listeners today on BN.com/podcast, the iTunes App Store and Stitcher. Barnes & Noble will be posting six to eight interviews each month, with many more huge names to come during the packed fall publishing season.

"Barnes & Noble is already a destination for customers to meet the authors they love and have conversations about their favorite books," said Fred Argir, Chief Digital Officer. "The B&N Podcast is a natural extension of those conversations, bringing the biggest names in literature directly to their audiences in a meaningful new way that only Barnes & Noble can deliver."

The first series of episodes, which are available now, include discussions with:

• Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad
• John Grisham, author of Camino Island
• J. Courtney Sullivan, author of Saints for All Occasions
• Paula Hawkins, author of Into the Water
• Peter Gethers, author of My Mother's Kitchen: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and the Meaning of Life
• Imbolo Mbue, author of the latest Oprah Book Club pick, Behold the Dreamer.

In coming weeks, episodes featuring fan-favorite authors including Jennifer Finney Boylan, Yaa Gyasi, Jo Nesbo, and more, will become available. For more information customers can visit BN.com/podcast, or follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Snapchat (bnsnaps), and like us on Facebook.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. BKS is the world's largest bookseller, and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The Company operates 633 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 4.5 million digital books in the US (www.nook.com), plus periodicals and comics, 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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