Wanted: Humor Writers for Barnes&Noble.com (USA)

28 June 2010
Wanted: Humor Writers for Barnes&Noble.com (USA)
If you're brimming with funny, relatable observations about teenage life (i.e. cliques, crushes, and cafeteria food), we want to you to join our growing group of bloggers. SparkLife covers a broad range of topics from movies to music to study hall humiliation, but every post has one thing in common: hilarity. A distinctive voice, an upbeat attitude, and a humorous take on everything high school related are essential.

Applicants should study our style by reading http://www.community.sparknotes.com/ then email a resume, an entertaining cover letter, and a sample blog post (no first person, please) to
contribute@... with SparkLife Blogger as the subject line. We will be evaluating your work in terms of its relevance to our audience and whether or not it makes us laugh, so tailor your application accordingly and please dont submit previously published posts or links to your blog.

About Our Company Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 841 bookstores in 49 states. For the third year in a row, the company is the nation's top retail brand for quality, according to the EquiTrend(R) Brand Study by Harris Interactive(R).

In addition to its retail operations, Barnes & Noble is one of the largest book publishers in the world. It's subsidiary, Sterling Publishing, publishes over 1,300 new titles a year and has an active list of over 6,000 titles.

Barnes & Noble.com leverages the power of the Barnes & Noble brand to offer online customers the Webs premier destination for books, music, DVD, video games, and related products and services.

Barnes & Noble.com ranks #1 in customer satisfaction among all e-commerce sites according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index in the most recent annual e-commerce report on consumer attitudes by the University of Michigan. In addition, Barnes & Noble.com is ranked ninth in traffic among retailers with their own Web site, according to Media Metrix, and the number-one brand among e-commerce companies, according to the latest EquiTrend survey.

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