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1. lithub.com › from-local-to-global-to-gone-on-theFrom Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of ...

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   Nov 28, 2023 · The following essay by Tom Borders is excerpted from Among Friends: An Illustrated Oral History of American Book Publishing & Bookselling in the 20th Century, edited by Buz Teacher and Janet Bukovinsky Teacher (Two Trees Press).Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads * In 1970, Louis Borders was working in a bookstore in Boston while attending M.I.T.

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Borders_GroupBorders Group - Wikipedia

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   Borders Group, Inc. was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores. [1][2] At the beginning of 2010, the company operated 511 Borders superstores in the United ...

4. www.annarbor.com › business-review › where-are-theyWhere are they now? Borders brothers long gone from Ann Arbor ...

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   Feb 15, 2011 · As the book store chain that bears their name approaches bankruptcy, brothers Tom and Louis Borders are nowhere to be found. That's partly because they left Ann Arbor years ago. Louis is an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, and Tom is involved in a financial business in Austin, Texas. The Louisville natives started Borders Book Shop on South ...

5. www.theatlantic.com › business › archiveWhat Went Wrong at Borders - The Atlantic

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   Jan 11, 2011 · To understand Borders' decline, it is worth going back to its origins on State Street in Ann Arbor. The store was founded in the early 1970s by Tom and Louis Borders, University of Michigan ...

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   Follow Tom Borders and explore their bibliography from Amazon.com's Tom Borders Author Page.

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   Jul 18, 2011 · Feb. 4, 1997: Shares close at an all-time high of $44.88. March 11, 1997: Borders executes a 2-for-1 split on its stock. January 1998 to January 1999: Borders expands its store footprint by 25.5 percent, adding 52 superstores in the biggest one-year expansion in its history. By January 1999, the company has 256 superstores averaging $256 in ...

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   Where is Borders Book Shop based?

   • It is based on AnnArbor.com research, interviews, Securities and Exchange Commission documents, archived news reports and information from Borders. 1971: Brothers Tom and Louis Borders open an 800-square-foot used bookstore called Borders Book Shop at 211 S. South State St. in Ann Arbor.

   Borders' rise and fall: a timeline of the bookstore chain's 40-year history

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   What happened to Borders Books?

   • In 2011, nineteen years after the Borders brothers sold the business and sixteen years after becoming a public company, Borders Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy. All of the stores were closed. Thousands of booksellers lost their jobs.

   From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

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   Where was the first Borders bookstore located?

   • The original Borders bookstore was located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, where it was founded in 1971 by brothers Tom and Louis Borders during their undergraduate and graduate years at the University of Michigan. The first Borders bookshop opened at 209 South State Street, Ann Arbor, in 1971.

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   How many Borders stores are there?

   • Borders Group, Inc. was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores. At the beginning of 2010, the company operated 511 Borders superstores in the United States.

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   How did Borders Book Shop become a'superstore'?

   • Though a well-run, small, quaint bookstore could still find a place, the high-traffic, high-volume Borders Book Shop in Ann Arbor with its vast selection helped redefine what a bookstore could be in the United States. By adding to the store space piecemeal, the brothers had drifted into the “superstore” concept quite by accident.

   From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

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   What did the Borders brothers do?

   • The Borders brothers helped individuals open their own stores using their own store name in their own cities and supplied them with a central buying and consolidated shipping. With two shipments a week from Book Inventory’s central warehouse in Ann Arbor, those independent stores often became the best bookstore in their market.

   From Local, to Global, to Gone: On the Rise and Fall of Borders Books

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9. www.reuters.com › article › businessTimeline: A short history of Borders Group bookstores

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   Feb 16, 2011 · Here are some key dates in Borders' history: 1971: Tom and Louis Border found Borders Book Shop in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 1992: Kmart buys Borders, then a Michigan-based chain of 21 book superstores ...