Earlier this year I’d asked ‘Is Borders going out of business?‘ At that time Borders was also looking for a buyer, essentially a white knight to come riding in on a purple unicorn with a long flowing rainbow mane. Things haven’t gone well since and Borders 3rd quarter results contained the following bit of information under

Given that over the past year or so I've never actually found the novel that I'm looking for in Borders, I could make a killing here: Borders, which earlier in the year struggled to keep books in stock as it reduced inventory levels, has introduced a new holiday program under which the retailer will provide free shipping on any item listed on Borders.com that is not carried in a store where a cust...

Don’t forget to enter my giveaway for a paperback copy of The Wednesday Sisters! Recently, Shelf Awareness mentioned an article on the website 24/7 Wall Street, “Twelve Brands That Will Disappear by End of 2010“. Unfortunately, Borders Books is on their list. Click through the read all of the predicted casualties, but here’s the blurb for Borders: Borders

In case you’re interested, a copy of the entire memo from Borders to IPG that I referenced earlier is available on Ed Champion’s blog. There are a few interesting paragraphs not included in the earlier GalleyCat post: We think that the best course for IPG’s client publishers is to accept the option of still shipping to Borders. Borders has been paying IPG, they are reported to ha...

Borders UK has confirmed it plans to remove the Books Etc and Borders Express brands from the high street. The bookseller – which in July completed a management buyout backed by the retail restructuring specialist Hilco – is trying to sell its remaining seven Books Etc shops and two smaller format Borders Express stores.

Borders has moved to dismiss the $1 million lawsuit filed by Jasmine-Jade Enterprises, the parent corporation of Ellora's Cave and Cerridwen Press for allegedly "excessive" returns from the bookseller. GalleyCat reported in January when the independent publisher sued Borders over discrepancies in book orders. In the motion for dismissal, Borders said that the book company had "short-shipped" ...

I used my Borders Books birthday gift-card recently, deciding that I'd better not wait, given the bookseller's current and worsening woes. Not that any bookseller is on easy street these days, but Borders's rough patch seems especially rocky. Borders Group...

I'm not the type given to rants. Not normally. Well, OK, once in a while maybe, but not on these pages. Not until now, not until returning from a failed shopping expedition to my local Borders. Let's go back to Tuesday to set this up. Tuesday I went to Borders expecting to buy a book. It was just released that day and I had every reasonable expectation of finding it on the store shelves....

To the casual book buyer, Borders and Barnes & Noble might appear to be the same mega-bookstore with different covers. They're not. Borders, for example, stubbornly persists in shelving memoirs among fiction. You'd expect -- I would expect -- that memoirs would be shelved along with biographies and autobiographies. Borders doesn't have such a section. Instead, biographies ar...

They're calling it the "make" book program and its part of a new strategy implemented by CEO Ron Marshall to bring Borders out of the doldrums (and possible bankruptcy) and into the bookselling limelight. How it works: They take a "few works favored by Borders national sales officials and promote them nationwide in the spirit of a local seller, from prominent placement to personally advocatin...