logo
g Text Version
Beauty & Self
Books & Music
Career
Computers
Education
Family
Food & Wine
Health & Fitness
Hobbies & Crafts
Home & Garden
Money
News & Politics
Relationships
Religion & Spirituality
Sports
Travel & Culture
TV & Movies

dailyclick
Bored? Games!
Nutrition
Postcards
Take a Quiz
Rate My Photo

new
Painting
Knitting
Dating
Reading
Women's Fashion
Small Office/Home Office
History


dailyclick
All times in EST

Clairvoyance: 08:00 PM

Full Schedule
g
g Literary Fiction Site

BellaOnline's Literary Fiction Editor

g

Barnes and Noble Online

Guest Author - M. E. Wood

The first walk-in store opened in New York City in 1917. The Barnes & Noble website is owned by Barnes & Noble, Inc and they have over 800 walk-in stores which can offer "over 1 million titles" of books, music DVDs, video games, and gifts. Because of this they are widely considered "the largest book retailer" in the United States. In 1997 the website went live helping to increase their customer base to those who would have normally been out of reach. There's really so much that the Barnes and Noble's website has to offer that this short article can not possibly cover them all. Here are the highlights.

The basic browsing headings include books, DVDs, music, textbooks, magazines, B&N Jr. (kids books), toys and games, home and gift, and see all. The book area can be searched with the book browser by title, author, or keyword or via further categories for bestsellers, new releases, coming soon, recommended, audio books, children's books, used and out of print, bargain books. The browse books features divides the books into literary categories which are further divided into genre. This system is actually a lot easier than it sounds and I found I was able to whip into each area with no problem.

Barnes and Noble has a membership for loyal regular visitors to their stores and sites (Canada has a similar concept in their large Chapters stores - one of the things that annoy me). The membership card entitles bearers to 40% off hardcover list prices, 20% off adult hardcover list prices, and 10 % off almost everything else. If you sign up to their email notices you can also learn about weekly specials that could offer 30-40% savings. The B&N membership costs $25 a year and requires you to give your name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. You can of course still order books and take advantage of the site's wish lists system without a membership. Each book shows a price comparison of list price, online price and member price.

In the United States, readers can get "fast & free delivery" when they order a minimum of $25. Barnes & Noble ships to Canada and internationally at reasonable rates. They accept payment from traditional credit cards, the B&N card/gift certificate and from PayPal.

If you are feeling interactive, there are online book clubs for every genre and category of books which readers correspond through Barnes & Noble's a forum system. Readers can join to post messages on any of the threads and have conversations with other interested readers about their favourite (or not so favorite) books. Each forum environment is moderated by a highly motivated person with a love for the topic.

One of the best features of the Barnes & Noble website doesn't cost anything at all. There's an online studio and magazine where readers can watch and listen to exclusive interviews with popular authors, read biographies, and witness performances. And if you are more traditional there are lots of print reviews in magazine format.

One of my favourite aspects of the site is the wish list. It allows readers to add products they might want to purchase at a later date (with no obligation to buy). It's a handy memory tool for shopping for others too. More than one wish list can be created so if you hear about a book a loved one would like you can save it to a list to refer to when special occasions arise. Kind of takes the worry out of last minute shopping.

Visit Barnes and Noble.




M. E. Wood lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada. If you are going to find this eclectic reader and writer anywhere it is probably at her computer. For more information visit her official website.
Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Twitter Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Facebook Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to MySpace Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Del.icio.us Digg Barnes+and+Noble+Online Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Yahoo My Web Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Google Bookmarks Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Stumbleupon Add Barnes+and+Noble+Online to Reddit




Amazon Kindle
Random House, Inc.
Ebay Book Browsing
RSS
Related Articles
Editor's Picks Articles
Top Ten Articles
Previous Features
Site Map


For FREE email updates, subscribe to the Literary Fiction Newsletter


Past Issues


print
Printer Friendly
bookmark
Bookmark
tell friend
Tell a Friend
forum
Forum
email
Email Editor


Content copyright © 2015 by M. E. Wood. All rights reserved.
This content was written by M. E. Wood. If you wish to use this content in any manner, you need written permission. Contact Ije Kanu for details.

g


g features
Book Review - AfterLife Allegiances

Book Review - Heaven's Forgotten

Bittersweet Dreams - A Review

Archives | Site Map

forum
Forum
email
Contact

Past Issues
memberscenter


vote
Poetry
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Less than Monthly



BellaOnline on Facebook
g


| About BellaOnline | Privacy Policy | Advertising | Become an Editor |
Website copyright © 2015 Minerva WebWorks LLC. All rights reserved.


BellaOnline Editor
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58063.asp
www.bellaonline.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-40
27134
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:XSWHCOZRFOMUU7IRMYQH4RO63BQL5EJB
<urn:uuid:7a004e6a-f92a-4fb7-9539-4d5625397253>
2016-09-30T01:31:28Z
173.254.242.118
sha1:QEZGAYVABIFJYF4JV5KJQ3ATTOEMNVS6
<urn:uuid:a8038db1-4860-41d1-8076-30b6cfb9445a>
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art58063.asp
response
<urn:uuid:1ee953bb-e487-4847-9f66-7a9a28790a53>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-40
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for September 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf