Books-A-Million to Host First Lady Laura Bush in McLean, Va.

Books-A-Million (NASDAQ:BAMM): Who:   Laura Bush is an Honorary Ambassador for the UN Literary Decade and hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Global Literacy in 2006 to encourage international cooperation and build free societies through literacy. In 2001 she joined with the Library of Congress to launch the first National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. As First Lady of Texas, Mrs. Bush founded the statewide Texas Book Festival in 1995 and has taught in Dallas, Houston, and Austin public schools. In Read All About It!, Mrs. Bush and her daughter Jenna create a classroom adventure that will leave readers racing to the shelves! What: Mrs. Bush signs copies of her new book Read All About It! When: Thursday, April 24th at 7 p.m. Eastern Where: Books-A-Million (703) 893-7640 Chain Bridge Center, 1451 Chain Bridge Road McLean, VA 22101 Why: Customers will have the opportunity to personally meet Mrs. Bush and get copies of Read All About It! signed. Additional Information: Media wishing to attend the event must contact Jane Hoerner at hoernerj@bamm.com by 5:00 p.m. Eastern on Monday, April 21st in order to obtain event credentials. Line numbers will be distributed beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday, April 21st at the McLean location. Mrs. Bush will sign up to three copies of Read All About It! per person. No personalization. No memorabilia will be signed. Photographs are permitted, but no posed photos will be allowed during the signing. Due to heightened security, customers must go through a security checkpoint before the event. Please leave backpacks, large handbags and other prohibited items at home or in your car and arrive ahead of time to allow for the screening. Books-A-Million cannot guarantee that all customers with line numbers will have the opportunity to meet Mrs. Bush and have Read All About It! signed. About Books-A-Million, Inc. Books-A-Million (NASDAQ:BAMM) is one of the nation's leading book retailers and sells on the Internet at www.booksamillion.com. The Company presently operates more than 200 stores in 20 states and the District of Columbia. The Company operates two distinct store formats, including large superstores operating under the names Books-A-Million and Books & Co., and traditional bookstores operating under the name Bookland. The Company’s wholesale operations include American Wholesale Book Company and Book$mart, both based in Florence, Alabama. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.booksamillioninc.com.