With Borders UK facing it’s end, one of last week’s rumored bidders has come forward to express his regrets. Richard Joseph, who with his father Philip founded Books Etc before it was bought by Borders, says that he went to the UK to make a “serious attempt” to buy some of the stores, but was [...]
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December 21, 2009
No buyer for Borders UK, stores to close tomorrow
After being given a glimmer of hope last week after a supposedly official leaked document said that there might be a buyer for 23 of the 45 stores, no agreement could be reached, and MCR, the official administrators for the Borders liquidation, announced Friday night that all Borders UK stores will cease operations tomorrow, December [...]
December 16, 2009
Borders to launch e-book store
Borders has announce plans to launch their own e-book store, probably in early 2010. The store has taken some criticism lately for it’s lack of a recognizable e-book market (though they do have a co-branded store with Sony currently) considering it’s competitors are Amazon (with whom their online store used to be affiliated) and Barnes [...]
December 16, 2009
Final closing of Borders UK confirmed
The administrators overseeing the closing of Borders UK has confirmed that unless a buyer is found, the bookstore will officially close it’s doors in the UK on December 22. A mere 6 days away, the sudden closing date is causing a slew of court cases from publishers who are looking to recover debts from the [...]
December 8, 2009
Posts forthcoming/Borders’ fail
So the plan for today was to come down to Borders and use their wifi (which I, being broke, don’t have) to make all my updates. So I lugged my computer all the way down here* only to find their wifi is temporarily down. Awesome. So, lacking an internet connection, I am posting this from [...]
December 2, 2009
Borders launches petitions to save stores
After the announcement this weekend that Borders UK will be closing barring they do not find a buyer, many of the stores have launched petitions to save the stores both among their employees and online. But unless someone with enough money to save the floundering bookseller joins the group, it is unlikely to be anything [...]
December 1, 2009
Borders UK closing
It’s official. All 45 Borders and Books Etc. stores in the UK have hung giant STORE CLOSING banners in the window and begun going out of business sales. Though Borders’ administrators have been coy about the move all week with the press, it came as the biggest shock to the Borders employees who were not [...]
November 5, 2009
Borders continues closings
Publisher’s Weekly has just reported that Borders, already suffering from the monolith of Barnes & Noble, will close 200 stores in January. The stores will be Waldenbooks, Borders Express, and Borders Outlet stores. None of the main branches will be affected. Most of the stores will be mall branches. No airport stores or kiosks will [...]
