On a recent afternoon at a Borders bookstore in midtown Manhattan, everything seemed normal. Customers came and went, browsing stocked shelves as employees helped them navigate the store’s mazelike ...

Borders didn't carry my book, How to Be Sick. Yes, you could get it at Borders.com, but that didn't stop me from feeling disregarded when I'd go into the store that used to be ten minutes from my ...

I STILL remember walking into the original Borders bookstore in Ann Arbor, Mich. It seemed to take up the entire block. “You gotta see this place!” a friend had gushed, and when we pulled open the ...

There will be no storybook ending for Borders. The 40-year-old book seller could start liquidating its 399 remaining stores as early as Friday. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based chain, which helped pioneer ...

ANN ARBOR MICH. —Everyone knows that Borders bookstores sell a lot of books, but few book buyers would be expected to know that the stores’ cafes sold $112 million in coffee and treats last year, or ...

The Quad-Cities spoke and Books-A-Million listened. BAM, the Birmingham, Ala.-based bookstore chain, has agreed to acquire 14 Borders stores nationwide, including the one at 4000 E. 53rd St., ...

Just this week, 14-year-old Blake Burmaster bought two paperbacks at the Borders at Baybrook Passage in Webster. "He loves to read," said his father, Troy Burmaster, a nurse who lives in La Porte.

Forty years ago, when Borders opened its first store in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the book industry was a different place. But for years, Borders acted like it wasn’t, culminating in the announcement this ...