NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced it has signed a lease agreement to open a new Barnes & Noble bookstore in Cumming, Georgia, which is in the greater Atlanta area. The bookstore, expected to open in April 2008, will be located in The Avenue Forsythe shopping center at the northwest corner of Georgia Highway 141 and Ronald Reagan Parkway. The store will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles and include a café serving Starbucks coffee.

Barnes & Noble’s bookselling innovations have established it as America’s top bookseller brand. For the fourth year in a row, the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive® named Barnes & Noble bookstores number one in overall brand equity, which is based on a brand’s strength in familiarity, quality and purchase intent. The new store will feature:

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Carol posted her thoughts and impressions of the 29th Annual Colorado Antiqurian Seminar on the Bibliophile Bullpen.

It is definitely worth reading, for both people who could make it and those who were absent (like myself).

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A Congolese student has launched a court case denouncing the comic book Tintin in the Congo as racist, calling for its withdrawal from sale, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said. It is not the first time that the book, featuring late Belgian author and illustrator Herge’s popular red-headed boy journalist Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy, has raised hackles over its content.
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