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Additional factors that couldcause actual results to differ materially include: unanticipated accountingissues or audit issues regarding the financial data for the periods beingrestated in the Companys previously announced restatement; the ability of theCompany and its independent registered public accounting firm to confirminformation or data identified in the review, being overseen by the AuditCommittee of the Companys Board of Directors, of the scope and nature of theCompanys internal controls (the "Review"); unanticipated issues regarding theReview that prevent or delay the Companys independent registered publicauditing firm from relying upon the Review or that require additional efforts,documentation, procedures, review or investigation; the Companys ability todesign or improve internal controls to address issues detected in the Review orby management in its reassessment of the Companys internal controls; the impactupon the Companys operations of the Review, legal compliance matters orinternal controls, improvement and remediation; difficulties in controllingexpenses, including costs of the Review, legal compliance matters or internalcontrols review, improvement and remediation; the Companys ability to becomecurrent in its SEC periodic reporting requirements; the outcome of pendinglitigation; general business, economic and political conditions; competitivedevelopments in the medical devices market; changes in applicable legislative orregulatory requirements; the Companys ability to effectively and successfullyimplement its financial and strategic alternatives, as well as businessstrategies, and manage the risks in its business; the reactions of themarketplace to the foregoing; and other risks and uncertainties discussed morefully in the Companys SEC filings, including those discussed under Item 1A."Risk Factors" in its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007. Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer KatcherJoele Frank, 212-355-4449, ext. Copyright Business Wire 2009. NEW YORK(Business Wire)Barnes & Noble, Inc.

(NYSE: BKS), the worlds largest bookseller, todayannounced the season premiere of its hit series, "Upstairs at the Square" -recommended by The New Yorker, New York, Time Out New York, The Village Voice,WWD Scoop, Time Out London, and more - happening at the Union Square Barnes &Noble in Manhattan (33 East 17th Street at Union Square). On Thursday, February5, at 7pm, Nikki Giovanni, whose new book is Bicycles: Love Poems(HarperCollins, January 27), and Emmanuel Jal, whose new book is War Child: AChild Soldiers Story (St. Martins Press, February 3), discuss and performtheir work in conversation with host Katherine Lanpher Admission is free, andno tickets are required Seating is available on a first-come, first-servebasis. The author of twenty-seven books and a Grammy nominee forThe Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, she is the University DistinguishedProfessor/English at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, and an Oprah LivingLegend. Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, but always beautiful, herpoems move readers of all hues and generations. With Bicycles, she's collectedpoems that serve as a companion to her Love Poems (1997).

An instant classic,Love Poems - romantic, bold, and erotic - expressed notions of love in ways thatwere delightfully unexpected. Here romantic love - and all its manifestations,the physical touch, the emotional pull, the hungry heart - is distilled as neverbefore by one of our most talented poets. Emmanuel Jal () lives in London. His music has been featuredin the movie Blood Diamond, the documentary God Grew Tired of Us, and in threeepisodes of ER.