After filing for bankruptcy few months ago, Borders today announced all its 399 brick and mortar stores will be closed by September. Liquidation will start as early as Friday. If you own e-books purchased on borders.com you can easily transfer them to a Kobo account. The process is very easy and takes just a few minutes, [...]
Like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Borders has created an online platform for selling eBooks. Rather than building its own brand of eReader device, however, Borders opted to partner with Kobo, a subsidiary of the Canadian book retailer Indigo Books & Music. But you must have heard the news already: Borders filed for bankruptcy protection [...]
Borders Group Ltd. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this morning after five years of turnaround efforts failed to return the Ann Arbor-based bookseller to health.The nation’s second-largest bookseller said it would close 30% of its stores, or about 200, in the coming weeks. In addition, Borders said in its bankruptcy filing that it may [...]
It wasn’t long ago (less than a year) when Kobo introduced the first e-Reader to cost under $150. It’s amazing how fast things change as at the moment the Kobo WiFi an even more advanced version of the basic Kobo reader is offered at Borders for only $99. That’s without any sale prices, one time [...]
Kobo announced today it will be releasing a WiFi Kobo Reader. The older Kobo Reader was lacking both 3G and WiFi, leaving the device far behind other ereaders with the same price tag like the Kindle 3 or the Nook. The new Kobo WiFi will be available in 3 different colors: black, silver and lavender [...]
eBooks offer several advantages over traditional paperbacks. They are lighter to carry around, cost less, and are also greener to produce. No wonder the eBook industry is growing at a steady pace. eBook Stores are also proliferating to cater to the demand for eBooks. 1. Amazon Kindle Store: The largest and most popular eBook store, the [...]
Borders Group is quite late to the ebook business. Amazon has already a head start of 2 years, Sony and a B&N has about a year, and Apple’s iBooks has about 4 months. This means Borders will be covering a lot of ground if it wishes to match up to rival bookstores. The company announced they [...]
Borders is planning to copy it’s eBook online store to it’s brick and mortar locations, creating special sections in the stores exclusively for eBooks and eReaders. The eBook store, created by global ereading service Kobo, launched with more than 1.5 million titles, including thousands of free titles, in a variety of formats, including EPUB, mobile [...]
Borders.com just announced it will give away 5 free ebooks valued at $40 to anyone who downloads a free Borders application beginning today, Friday, July 9 through Wednesday, July 14. These popular titles include Dean Koontz’s “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son” “One Shot” by Lee Child “The Alchemyst” by Michael Scott Julia Child’s ” Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom” [...]
Borders looks to be taking a hybrid approach by offering up the $150 Kobo, $120 Aluratek Libre (available July 20th), $170 Sony Touch, and $150 Sony Pocket eReaders and today’s launch of a self-branded eBook store powered by Kobo’s catalog of more than 1.5 million titles — “thousands” of which are free and available in a variety of formats including ePub [...]