Barnes & Noble Launches “The B&N Podcast”
August 16 2017 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
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. (NYSE: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. (NYSE: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®.
General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained
by visiting the Company's corporate website at
www.barnesandnobleinc.com.
Barnes & Noble®, Barnes & Noble Booksellers® and Barnes
& Noble.com® are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. or its
affiliates. NOOK® and the NOOK logos are trademarks of Nook
Digital, LLC or its affiliates.
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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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