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Books-A-Million Fills Another Borders Store
Books-A-Million will open another store in a former Borders location, this time in Erie, PA. The company had previously announced a new store in a former Borders location in Bridgeport. W.V.
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Books-A-Million Fills in Borders Store in W.V.
A former Borders store location was filled in by Books-A-Million in Bridgeport, W.V., the chain's 230th store nationwide.
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Borders Intellectual Property on the Block
With Borders' going-out-of-business sales underway, the company is getting ready to sell off its next most valuable property, its intellectual assets: trade marks, trade names, logos, Internet domain names, and customer information, including e-mail addresses and purchasing history.
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Attracting Borders Customers
Stores in areas as disparate as New York City and Scarborough, Maine, are trying to lure Borders customers.
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Online Retailers Steam Ahead
E-books and online retailers showed strong market share gains in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the first period of 2010, while book clubs and hardcovers had noticeable declines. Those were some of the shifts in trends derived from Bowker's PubTrack Consumer service.
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Golden Oldies: Survival Tips from the Country's Ten Oldest Bookstores
Despite the difficulties that all booksellers face—from economic woes to succession, real estate costs, and changes in the way people read and shop—there are stores that have successfully made the transition from the 1700s and 1800s to become 21st-century retailers.
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Indigo Asks Publishers to Ship Directly to Stores
Canadian publishers are adjusting to big changes for their biggest retail client, Indigo Books & Music, including sending books directly to the store and expecting returns sooner if titles are not selling.
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Banned Books Week Features YouTube Read-Out
For Banned Books Week (Sept. 24-Oct. 1) this year, booksellers and their customers can proclaim their support for free speech on the Internet by joining a worldwide read-out of banned and challenged books.
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Books-A-Million Ends Borders Bid; DJM Cranks Up Lease Sales
Books-A-Million's effort to acquire the leases and inventory of 30 Borders location came to an end last night, while DJM Realty, the company looking for new tenants for Borders stores, stepped up its efforts.
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Wisconsin's Brown Street Books to Close
Joan Belongia, owner of Brown Street Books in Rhinelander, Wis., is closing the 18-year-old bookstore sometime in August.
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Canadian Book Sales Down in Q1
Sales of print books in Canada dropped dramatically in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the first quarter of 2010, according to new figures from BookNet Canada.
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Borders: From Chapter 11 to Liquidation - All of PW's Coverage in One Place
All our coverage of the Borders saga: the leadup to bankruptcy; the filing; the aftermath, the end.
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Bookselling After Borders
Because of the company's shaky finances, most publishers began transitioning sales to other outlets long before Borders' bankruptcy filing. Even so, the crippled chain moved a lot of books; it was the nation's #3 bookseller, with 14% of the market last year, according to Bowker.
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A World Without Borders
It might seem only reasonable for independents to gloat, at least a little, now that one of their biggest competitors, Borders Book Group, which had 1,249 stores in 2003, has begun closing its remaining 399 stores. But the response from indies to Borders's demise has been muted by the potential impact on the overall health of the bookselling business and the readers it serves.
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Borders Sale Approved
In the end, Borders went the way of other large retailers like Circuit City and Linens ‘n Things. At Thursday’s hearing, Judge Martin Glenn said that he will enter the sales order for Borders’s liquidation and going-out-of-business sales starting Friday.
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What's Selling at Fundamentals Children's Books
Tami Furlong, owner of Fundamentals Children's Books in Delaware, Ohio, talks about what's moving well in her store this summer.
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Red Balloon Bookshop: New Owners, New Vision
More than a quarter-century after Michele Cromer-Poire and Carol Erdahl opened the Red Balloon Bookshop in St. Paul, Minn., they're handing it off to another pair of female entrepreneurs.
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Borders's Final Accounting, Pre-Liquidation
Borders is adding up the losses, and a few profits, for its last monthly operating report to be submitted before the liquidation of its bookstores begins.
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AAP Monthly Sales Report: Digital Climbs 147%
All major adult print segments--hardcover, paperback and mass market--showed a decline in sales in May, according to the AAP’s monthly sales report, with e-books showing a steep uptick of 146.9%.
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Bookselling Without Borders
As much as independent booksellers may have wished that Borders had gotten swallowed up back in the 1990s when it put so many stores out of business and was well on its way to becoming a 1,249-store behemoth, the response to its impending demise has, for the most part, been measured.
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