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Walden Book Company, Inc., doing business as Waldenbooks, was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain and a subsidiary of Borders.The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.
B. Dalton had stores in 43 of 50 states in 1978, and was second to Waldenbooks (then the U.S.'s largest bookstore) in store numbers, but posted higher profits than its rival. [3] [4] A flagship store opened in Manhattan in December 1978, [3] and between 1983 and 1986, the chain revived the Pickwick name as a discount bookstore.
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Brentano's was an American bookstore chain with numerous locations in the United States.. Brentano's booksellers label in 1915 Paris. As of the 1970s, there were four Brentano's in New York: the Fifth Avenue flagship store at Rockefeller Center, one in Greenwich Village, one in Manhasset, and one in White Plains.
acquired by Waldenbooks and merged with Borders; defunct 2011 Crown Books United States: defunct 2001 Encore Books United States: defunct 1999 Family Christian Stores United States: physical stores closed in 2017; online retailer since 2019 Hastings Entertainment United States: defunct 2016 Kroch's and Brentano's United States
Kroch's and Brentano's was the largest bookstore in Chicago, and at one time it was the largest privately owned bookstore chain in the United States.The store and the chain were formed in 1954 through the merger of the separate Kroch's bookstore with the former Chicago branch of the New York-based Brentano's bookstore. [1]
Borders was acquired in 1992 by Kmart, which had acquired mall-based book chain Waldenbooks eight years earlier. [23] [24] [25] Kmart had struggled with the book division, having first tinkered with the assortment and later with discounting. In the Borders acquisition, Kmart merged the two companies in hopes that the experienced Borders senior ...
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