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Barnes & Noble welcomes Borders ®, Waldenbooks ®, Brentano’s ®, and all their customers to discover their next great read at Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest retail bookseller.
Borders built a reputation on offering a huge variety of books — tens of thousands of titles in a single store — at a time when most bookstores could afford to stock a fraction of that.
At the beginning of 2010, the company operated 511 Borders superstores in the United States. The company also operated 175 stores in the Waldenbooks Specialty Retail segment, including Waldenbooks, Borders Express, Borders airport stores, and Borders Outlet stores.
Many Borders locations, intentionally placed near Barnes & Noble stores, faced stiff competition. Many were oversized as well.
You might remember Borders bookstores. They were all over the country in the early 2000s, selling all kinds of books and even multimedia like CDs and movies. Their stores ranged from small outlets in shopping malls to huge buildings packed full of books.
Borders Book Shops and its affiliated stores were well stocked and well-staffed, and created a refreshing, almost intellectual atmosphere—like a library but with classical music playing in the background, and with the stimulating excitement of discovering and buying a stack of books.
Borders just got too big — so big in fact that many of its stores (an estimated 70 percent) were competing with a local Barnes & Noble’s, offering a glut of book stores even as people were...
The Borders Group, Inc. was a publicly held bookstore chain that closed its doors in September 2011. After Barnes & Noble, it was the second-largest bricks-and-mortar US bookstore chain, known for the innovation of creating the first superstore.
From humble beginnings — the first Borders, a used bookstore, opened in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1971 — the company became a pioneer of the big-box bookseller concept. At its peak in 2003, Borders...
Borders is closing after failing to find a buyer that wants to run the bookstore chain. The bankrupt firm will be liquidated. Some stores will close as soon as Friday.