Books-A-Million ends Borders deal, but may still lease some store locations
When Borders announced liquidation last week, there was a brief glimmer of hope that thirty of the stores might still be saved under a deal with Books-A-Million. That hope is now gone, with BAM’s CEO...
View ArticleBorders intellectual property now being liquidated
CNet has a quick piece on the continuing Borders liquidation, covering the company that will be selling Border’s intellectual property. The IP includes Borders’s website, as well as a number of IPv4...
View ArticleBorders files suit over losing control of valuable rewards program assets
Though it doesn’t have that much to do with e-books, the most recent development in the Borders bankruptcy has a lot to do with electronic data of another form. Borders has filed suit against Next...
View ArticleKobo asks that Borders bankruptcy sale not include its e-reader license
Where Amazon had the Kindle and Barnes & Noble had the Nook, Borders chose to partner with Kobo for its e-book store and reader. In the wake of Borders’s bankruptcy, it has been assumed that the...
View ArticleSite helps ex-Borders employees
I found out about this via a post by Jason Boog at GalleyCat. Here is what the Help Es-Borders Employees site says about itself: If you know of a way to help ex-Borders employees, e-mail...
View ArticleBorders sale to Barnes & Noble on hold due to customer privacy issues
A Federal judge has placed a hold on the $13.9 million purchase of Borders assets by Barnes & Noble while he considers privacy issues involved with the sale. The issue at hand involves an earlier...
View ArticleBorders and Barnes & Noble resolve mailing list privacy issue for asset sale
The dispute over privacy terms in Borders’s asset sale to Barnes & Noble has been settled after the parties came to an agreement on how to resolve the matter, PaidContent reports. At issue was a...
View ArticleWere e-books responsible for killing Borders?
No, they weren’t, writes Sue Walsh at our sister blog Gadgetell. Walsh points out that if e-books were responsible for killing Borders, they’d have done in Barnes & Noble and Amazon as well. Many...
View ArticleDemise of Borders highlights vanishing print infrastructure
Joseph Esposito of Scholarly Kitchen has a post looking at the demise of Borders and what it means for the publishing industry. Yes, I know, we’ve posted plenty of those looks before, closer to the...
View ArticleKobo sells refurbished Kobo Wi Fi for $49
eBookNewser reports that Kobo is selling $49 refurbished units of its Kobo Wi Fi reader, the non-touch-capable e-ink reader that it sold before the Kobo Touch. That’s a savings of $40 over list price....
View ArticleRakuten completes purchase of Kobo
Engadget has the press release from Kobo on the completion of its purchase by e-commerce company Rakuten. Kobo’s HQ will remain in Toronto, though Rakuten is based in Japan. Given that Rakuten owns a...
View ArticleAuthors Guild blames lax antitrust enforcement for Amazon dominance of book...
The Authors Guild blog has an interesting piece looking at Amazon’s growth in light of a decline in antitrust enforcement. For background, it brings up the Bloomberg Businessweek story I covered the...
View ArticleIs Books-A-Million slowly becoming the new Borders?
Over at The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder posted a great positive-news piece earlier today about a three-story, 41,000-square-foot bookstore that just opened in a Hong Kong shopping mall. As far as...
View ArticleHappy Birthday to the King of the Beats!
Yes, I was male suburban cliché: Like thousands of other disaffected middle-class white kids before me (and many more after, I’m sure), I discovered Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in high school—I’m proud...
View ArticleBarefooot Books Pulls its Books from Amazon
An independent children’s publisher has decided to cut ties with Amazon. Barefoot Books has pulled its books from the online retail giant, claiming that it wants to focus on more grassroots types of...
View ArticleWhat if Amazon bought Barnes & Noble?
There’s a peculiar phenomenon by which year-old articles sometimes show up again in news aggregators and social network feeds that for some reason see the month and day part of the date and miss the...
View ArticleIndie bookstores doing fine: Now stop demonizing Amazon?
Salon, rarely the most Amazon-friendly of venues, has just run another story on the state of the indie bookstore sector in the U.S., and found surprisingly positive trends. And naturally, being Salon,...
View ArticleRobinson-Patman, Amazon, the publishers, and the ABA: Where’s the lawsuit?...
Two different op-eds have popped up on CNN and Al Jazeera suggesting that Amazon, big bully that it is in the Hachette negotiation, needs to be taken down a peg under the Robinson-Patman Act. (If you...
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