aid: barnes-and-noble-education name: Barnes & Noble Education description: >- Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED) is one of the largest operators of college bookstores in the United States, operating physical and virtual campus stores alongside digital course-materials and educational services. BNED reaches more than 5.7 million students through 1,125+ physical and virtual stores across higher education and K-12 institutions, primarily through its Barnes & Noble College Booksellers subsidiary and the MBS Textbook Exchange wholesale business. Flagship offerings include the First Day and First Day Complete affordable-access course-materials programs, BNC OER+ digital courseware, faculty adoption tools, campus retail and ecommerce services, and BNC AI Tools. BNED separated from Barnes & Noble, Inc. in August 2015 and is not affiliated with the Barnes & Noble retail bookstore chain. This repository captures any APIs, developer tools, and machine-readable artifacts associated with BNED. No public developer APIs or developer portal have been identified at this time; integrations with campus systems and learning-management systems are delivered through institutional partnerships rather than a public API surface. type: Index image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg access: 3rd-Party created: '2026-05-23' modified: '2026-05-23' position: Consumer tags: - Education - Higher Education - Course Materials - Campus Bookstores - Affordable Access - Open Educational Resources - Digital Learning - Inclusive Access - Retail - Ecommerce - K-12 - Publicly Traded - Fortune 500 url: >- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/barnes-and-noble-education/refs/heads/main/apis.yml specificationVersion: '0.19' apis: [] common: - type: Website url: https://www.bnedu.com - type: SubsidiaryWebsite url: https://www.bncollege.com - type: SubsidiaryWebsite url: https://www.mbsbooks.com - type: InvestorRelations url: https://www.bnedu.com/investor-relations - type: NewsAndEvents url: https://www.bnedu.com/news-and-events/ - type: News url: https://www.bncollege.com/news/ - type: StoreDirectory url: https://www.bncollege.com/campus-stores/ - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barnes-&-noble-education-inc- - type: LinkedIn url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/barnes-&-noble-college - type: Wikipedia url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_%26_Noble_Education - type: StockTicker url: https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:BNED x-corporate: ticker: BNED exchange: NYSE headquarters: 120 Mountain View Boulevard, Basking Ridge, NJ spinoff: '2015-08-03' parentAtSpinoff: Barnes & Noble, Inc. notRelatedTo: Barnes & Noble retail bookstores (bn.com) x-segments: - id: retail name: Retail description: >- Physical and virtual campus bookstores operated for higher-education and K-12 partners under the Barnes & Noble College brand, plus logo'd general merchandise, athletics merchandising, and retail services. operatingSubsidiary: Barnes & Noble College Booksellers - id: wholesale name: Wholesale description: >- Textbook and course-materials wholesale distribution to college bookstores nationwide via MBS Textbook Exchange. operatingSubsidiary: MBS Textbook Exchange - id: dss name: Digital Student Solutions (DSS) description: >- Digital education tools and content historically including the Student Brands and PaperRater study/writing properties. operatingSubsidiary: Student Brands x-products: - id: first-day-complete name: First Day Complete summary: >- Equitable-access program delivering all required course materials to enrolled students by the first day of class through a flat per-credit-hour charge on tuition. metrics: partnerCampuses: 191 studentsServed: 950000 url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: first-day name: First Day summary: >- Course-by-course inclusive-access course-materials delivery model offered to faculty as an opt-in companion to traditional adoption. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: bnc-oer-plus name: BNC OER+ summary: >- Open Educational Resources content packaged with proprietary courseware, assessments, and faculty support, delivered at low or no cost to students. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: bnc-ai-tools name: BNC AI Tools summary: >- Suite of AI-assisted faculty and student tools rolled out across BNC campus partners. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: faculty-tools name: Faculty Adoption Tools summary: >- Course-materials adoption portal and faculty support resources (historically FacultyEnlight and Adoption Insights). url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: campus-stores name: Campus Stores (Physical & Virtual) summary: >- Operation of 1,125+ physical and virtual campus bookstores providing course materials, technology, supplies, gifts, and logo'd apparel. metrics: totalStores: 1125 higherEdAndK12: true url: https://www.bncollege.com/campus-stores/ - id: bnc-ecommerce name: BNC Ecommerce summary: >- Campus-branded online stores backing the physical store network, providing course-materials ordering, general merchandise, and logo'd apparel. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: athletics-merchandising name: Athletics Merchandising summary: >- Licensed and custom team merchandise programs supporting NCAA and collegiate athletics departments. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: bnc-k12 name: BNC K-12 summary: >- K-12 school store operations and course-materials services extending the BNC operating model into primary and secondary education. url: https://www.bncollege.com - id: research-insights name: College Insights & Research summary: >- Proprietary higher-education student and faculty research program published as industry insights rather than a queryable data API. url: https://www.bncollege.com x-integrations: - context: >- BNED publishes no public API, OpenAPI specification, or developer portal. Course-materials access and inclusive-access fulfillment typically integrate with campus systems (SIS, bursar, LMS) at the institutional level. No Canvas, Blackboard, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, or LTI integration documentation is published on bnedu.com or bncollege.com at this time. x-notable-absences: - No public developer portal - No OpenAPI / Swagger specification - No SDKs, CLIs, or sample code - No public GitHub organization with active code (legacy bnedu org dormant since 2015) - No public pricing or rate limits (B2B / institutional contracts only) - No public store-directory data feed / API - No published LMS integration specification maintainers: - FN: API Evangelist url: https://apievangelist.com