I’ve just come across another list of store closures which Borders released just yesterday. Once again, I have made a map, and it’s embedded after the break. The stores on this map will be closing in late May. It looks like 4 clusters, doesn’t it? I don’t think the ones in the midwest are close [...]
Entries Tagged as 'closing'
Borders closing sales are ahead of schedule
March 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
Borders appear to be dying faster than expected. Mike Cane first noticed this on Saturday, and yesterday I read this about the closing sales: The liquidators have reported that store closing sales are outpacing their expectations, with many of these stores moving to 40% off within the last few days. These locations have been incredibly [...]
My local Borders store isn’t closing, is yours? (map)
February 16th, 2011 · 12 Comments · ebookstore news
At least, not yet. I’ve come across a scanned list of the 200+ stores Borders will be closing under the bankruptcy plan. It was compiled on Monday by Hilco and submitted as part of the bankruptcy filing. Just for my own curiosity, I made a Google Map with most of the closing stores on it. [...]
On the closing of libraries (humor)
January 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
If you’ve been following the news lately then you probably know about the budget problems in the US and UK. One regrettably common response to the budget shortfall is to close libraries. Tom Gauld drew this comic a few days ago in The Gaurdian. It pretty much sums up what books will do with their [...]
Fictionwise closing branded ebookstores
September 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
Richard Curtis over at e-reads has noticed that Fictionwise have closed their affiliated ebookstores. (Actually, I’m not certain that’s the right word.) Let me explain. Fictionwise used to provide publishers with ebookstores based on their platform where customers could only see that publisher’s titles. Now that I look at this, it’s really not a big [...]
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