First it was the record stores, and now it’s come to this. It looks like the the Internet is about to claim its next victim – Borders. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Borders Group Inc. is in the final stages of preparing a bankruptcy filing, clinching a long fall for a company with humble beginnings that helped change the way Americans buy books but failed to keep pace with the digital transformation rocking every corner of the media landscape.
The troubled Ann Arbor, Mich., bookseller could file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection as soon as Monday or Tuesday, paving the way for hundreds of store closings and thousands of job losses, said people familiar with the matter.
Sad. Borders will reportedly seek to close about 225 of its 674 nationwide Borders and Waldenbooks stores (Waldenbooks is a subsidiary of Borders).
February 17th, 2011 at 8:48 am
You’re a little behind citing a five-day-old article…forget “on the verge”, Borders declared bankruptcy yesterday.