NEW YORK (AP)-- The scene this weekend at the last of the remaining Borders bookstores to close was more like a memorial service than a funeral. Shoppers reminisced fondly about their beloved ...
What are the lessons of the Borders (BGP) bankruptcy? Why couldn’t management – and a little marketing savvy ripped out of the fashion retail playbook – turn things around? Lesson No. 1: All Goliaths ...
There was a time when the independent bookstore seemed fated to die: In the early 1990s, chains like Borders and Barnes & Noble began their impressive rollout, and their guiding principle of bigger-is ...
NEW YORK - There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start liquidating its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday. The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based chain, which ...
As massive liquidation sales wrap up in Borders stores nationwide—they’ve moved way past the buy-two-get-one-free table by now—the fraught corporation is beginning to unload its empty buildings, a ...
Borders, unable to find a buyer willing to get it out of bankruptcy, plans to close its remaining 399 stores and go out of business by the end of September. “Following the best efforts of all parties, ...
On Thursday, representatives of the Borders bookstore chain were in court with a plan to liquidate its remaining 399 locations as early as Friday. Jeffrey Brown discusses what's next for bookstores, ...