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T wrote: "Woo hoo! Was just notified that I won a give away contest and will receive 12 autographed new books from various authors! Unless substitutions are made, looks like Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter..."Awesome! Lucky you!
Just got a delivery from Thriftbooks:
I like to make my own bookmarks on the computer and print them out on cardstock or I'll use other preprinted paper bookmarks. I sometime use playing cards, too, but I really don't like using anything else not meant to be a bookmark as a bookmark, such as a receipts, index cards, etc. Don't know why, but it just doesn't feel right to use those. I will if I have to, but then I'll change it for a real bookmark as soon as I can. I really don't like using metal bookmarks or paperclips because they dent the pages. Sometimes I'll use post-its to make notes and mark interesting pages.
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Batsap wrote: "
Just one so far..."
Just one?!? And you call yourself a book buying addict? lol j/k.
I should talk, I haven't bought anymore than you this month, I feel like I am going through withdrawal! ;-)
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today.
Share your August purchases here. Anyone have any last buys at Borders?
Sammie =^.^= wrote: "I keep myself in check by running out of money lol."lol. That's not exactly by choice! ;-)
Got signed copies at Andersons in Naperville, IL of
Book Buying Addicts Anonymous is 2 years old today! On our first anniversary we had 301 members, today we have 2159! That's seven times as much! Wow! I never imagined getting so big! Great to have so many think-alikes to talk with! :-)
Michele wrote: "One of the IL Andersons? I was just there tonight--in Naperville--for Jim Butcher's signature of Ghost Story!"Me too! I also brought home Wicked Bugs signed by Amy Stewart
Katrina wrote: "Jocelin wrote: "Does anyone know if Borders.com will still be operating?"The Australian borders website is still operating, despite all the stores having closed down, so maybe the american websit..."
At the Borders.com website while saying "All Borders Stores Going Out of Business" it also says "Borders.com is OPEN" but if it will be staying open, I don't know. Wish I did.
Lea wrote: "Bought at Borders today:The Bookman
Camera Obscura
A Game of Thrones"
We need to grab what we can from Borders now while we still can since they won't be around much longer. :-( "Borders' seeks approval to liquidate, close stores" http://news.yahoo.com/borders-seeks-a...
Megan, I wish I could help, but I'm afraid your description doesn't ring a bell with me. I suggest you post with the What's The Name of That Book??? group at http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/185 . They specialize in trying to figure out answers like you're looking for. Good luck.
Borders had such great coupon deals, especially for paperbacks. Amazon charges full price for those, I hate having to pay full cover price for a book. I had a bad feeling Borders was going to die. Honestly, the only reason I liked to shop from them was those coupons they sent out every week and their special members' deals. I think their deals were too good for their own good.
Ok, now I'm really depressed. Borders is going under for good. :-(http://news.yahoo.com/borders-seeks-a...
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 the big-box bookseller concept, is seeking court approval to liquidate after it failed to receive any bids that would keep it in business. The move adds Borders to the list of retailers that have failed to adapt to changing consumers' shopping habits and survive the economic downturn, including Circuit City Stores Inc., Blockbuster and Linens 'N Things.
On Thursday, Borders is expected to ask the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of the Southern District of New York at a scheduled hearing to allow it to be sold to liquidators led by Hilco Merchant Resources and Gordon Brothers Group. If the judge approves the move, liquidation sales could start as soon as Friday; the company could go out of business by the end of September.
Borders' attempt to stay in business unraveled quickly last week, after a $215 million "white knight" bid by private-equity firm Najafi Cos. dissolved under objections from creditors and lenders. They argued the chain would be worth more if it liquidated immediately.
"We were all working hard toward a different outcome, but the headwinds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, e-reader revolution, and turbulent economy, have brought us to where we are now," said Borders Group President Mike Edwards in a statement.
Borders liquidation could have far-reaching effects, putting thousands of people out of work at a time of high unemployment, particularly in Michigan where Borders is based. The chain, which has been shrinking in recent years, currently has 10,700 employees.
"We'll want to look closely from the jobs perspective of people in the state," said Geralyn Lasher, spokeswoman for Gov. Rick Snyder, in a statement.
The loss of Borders stores will deal a blow to malls nationwide, according to real estate sources. Borders stores average about 25,000 square feet __ about half the size of a football field __ and a liquidation could leave large empty spaces across the country.
Borders' move to close 228 stores while it reorganized in bankruptcy protection already increased the collective vacancy rate of shopping centers that contained a Borders to 9.3 percent from 4.2 percent, estimated Chris Macke, senior real estate strategist at CoStar Group, the nation's largest provider of real estate data. Macke calculated the liquidation of the rest of the chain could increase the vacancy rate on that same basis to 18.8 percent.
Additionally, Simba Information senior trade analyst Michael Norris predicts the closing could cause sales of electronic books to fall. Borders, for one, entered the electronic book market with Canada's Kobo Inc. last year. Owners of the Kobo e-reader will still be able use Kobo software to buy and read books. And Kobo officials said users of Borders e-book accounts, which began transitioning to Kobo in June, will be able to access their e-books uninterrupted.
"This industry is going to slowly figure out that a lot of e-book readers still use bookstores all the time to discover what's new before heading home to buy it for their e-reading device," he said.
Perhaps a Borders liquidation would hurt the consumer most. Tanya Ellis, 42, of Southfield, Mich., said the closings are "horrible." She said she and a friend would stop at a nearby Starbucks, then visit the Borders store in Beverly Hills, Mich., and browse for about an hour.
"So where are we going to buy books from? I just got into reading books the last two or three years, and they just keep closing all these bookstores," she said, adding that electronic readers aren't an option for her. "It takes all the fun out of it."
Justin Grant, 31, from Brooklyn, however, was less phased. Although he had just picked up a parenting book to read on his commute home Monday, he said he buys most of the 25 to 30 books he reads a year on Amazon.
"It's much easier to get them through the mail and delivered to my desk at work," he said.
It has been a long fall for Borders since Tom and Louis Borders opened their first store in 1971, selling used books in Ann Arbor. At its start, the brothers were mostly interested in offering other bookstores a system they developed for managing inventory.
But in 1973, the store moved to a larger location and shifted its focus to selling new books and expanding, helping pioneer the big-box bookstore concept along with Barnes & Noble Inc. At the time, Waldenbooks and B. Dalton mall chains, with small stores and 20,000 to 50,000 titles, were growing rapidly. The new superstores, by contrast, offered between 100,000 and 200,000 titles, as well as enticements to linger like comfortable chairs and attractive lighting.
Kmart Corp. saw the potential and acquired Borders in 1992, forming a book unit with Waldenbooks. It then spun the bookstores off as a separate company in 1995, the same year Amazon started selling books online.
Borders was slow to adapt to the changing industry and lost book, music and video sales to the Internet and other competition. Sales began to fall, leading to a revolving door of CEOs. By the time Borders' current CEO, financier Bennett LeBow, came aboard in May 2010 after investing $25 million in the company, bankruptcy was already looking like a strong possibility.
Borders filed for bankruptcy protection in February after being hurt by tough competition from online booksellers and discounters. It hoped to successfully emerge from bankruptcy protection by the fall as a smaller and more profitable company, but pressure from creditors and lenders eventually led the chain to put itself up for sale and finally, seek approval to liquidate.
At its peak, in 2003, Borders operated 1,249 Borders and Waldenbooks, but by the time it filed for bankruptcy protection in February that had fallen to 642 stores and 19,500 employees. Since then, Borders has shuttered more stores and laid off thousands.
Borders says it expects to be able to pay vendors for all expenses incurred during the bankruptcy cases.
Currently out of my library of 4631 books, 2853 of those are fiction, and 1415 of those are still to be read. I like to collect almost as much as I like to read. I figure I'd just like to have many of those unread books for the one day when I feel like a certain title, I'll have it and can read it that instant. :-)
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