![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Publishers Weekly reports that Borders will close 200 bookstores and offers
a list of the stores that will be closing (PDF of a somewhat fuzzy fax).
The Chicago Tribune reports on stores near me:
Though it makes me feel uncomfortably like a vulture, I can't help wondering about opportunities to pick up some bargains soon on books and other merchandise.
Or would it make more sense for Borders to return every book in 200 stores to its publisher, rather than retailing it at a steep discount?
a list of the stores that will be closing (PDF of a somewhat fuzzy fax).
The Chicago Tribune reports on stores near me:
According to the Borders Web site, the bookseller has about 30 stores in Chicago and its suburbs, including a few Indiana locations.
In Chicago, five of eight stores will close, including the one at North Avenue and Halsted Street, as well as those in Lincoln Park, Uptown, Lincoln Village and Beverly. The remaining stores in the city are in the Loop and Hyde Park, and a Waldenbooks in Citicorp Center.
Borders stores in Evanston, Mount Prospect, Deerfield, Bolingbrook, St. Charles, Crystal Lake, McHenry, DeKalb and Matteson are also slated for closure. Outside of Illinois, locations in Merrillville, Ind., and Fox Point, Wis., will be closing.
Though it makes me feel uncomfortably like a vulture, I can't help wondering about opportunities to pick up some bargains soon on books and other merchandise.
Or would it make more sense for Borders to return every book in 200 stores to its publisher, rather than retailing it at a steep discount?
