I've always preferred Borders to Barnes&Noble. Always. Partly because the B&N in my area sucks compared to my Borders, but mostly because I like the selection better at Borders and the customer service almost always beats out that of B&N. With the economy being down, booksellers are struggling just as much as everyone else. It would kill me if Borders closed permanently. A couple of we...

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

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 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...

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...

Borders Announce New Children's Buyer Borders UK has announced today that it has appointed JP Hunting as Children's Book Buyer.

As reported in Publishers Weekly,: sales at Borders fell by 10% in the third quarter to $693.4 million, resultiing in a net loss of $172.2 million for the period. And in terms of being for sale? Well, that’s now a thing of the past: Borders also announced that it is no longer for sale. Company CEO George Jones said that after completing a thorough review of its options, the company determine...