Barnes & Noble Customers Donate More Than 1.6 Million Books to Children in Need Through the Holiday Book Drive
January 10 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Increase of Nearly 100,000 Books on Last
Year’s Total
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS), the nation’s largest
retail bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media
and educational products, today announced that it collected more
than 1.6 million books during its 2016 Holiday Book Drive program.
The books are being donated to more than 650 local charities across
the country that provide services to children. This year’s total
surpasses the 2015 donation by nearly 100,000 books.
The donation was made possible through the generous support of
Barnes & Noble customers, who purchased books for donation at
Barnes & Noble bookstores nationwide between November 1, 2016,
and January 1, 2017. Community partners have already begun
distributing the books collected to hospitals, schools, literacy
organizations and social service organizations.
“The annual Holiday Book Drive is one of our most important
annual initiatives and this year our customers got behind it in a
big way by donating 1.6 million books,” said Tracy Vidakovich, Vice
President of Business Development for Barnes & Noble. “We want
to thank our customers for their amazing generosity, and let them
know that these donations will have a real impact on their
communities, and will be put in the hands of children who otherwise
may not have had access to books.”
Local recipients from the Holiday Book Drive include: Toys for
Tots; Children’s Aid Society; Big Brothers Big Sisters; the YMCA;
Salvation Army; First Book; children’s hospitals from around the
country; Reach Out & Read; Ronald McDonald House; Head Start;
United Way; various school districts, schools and public libraries;
and hundreds of other deserving organizations.
About Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS) is a Fortune 500 company,
the nation’s largest retail bookseller, and a leading retailer of
content, digital media and educational products. The Company
operates 638 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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Barnes & Noble, Inc.Mary Ellen Keating, 212-633-3323Senior
Vice PresidentCorporate Communicationsmkeating@bn.comorAlan
McNamara, 212-633-3379Senior DirectorCorporate
Communicationsamcnamara@bn.com
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