You may not have known this, but when Borders closed down, Barnes & Noble purchased some of its assets. Among those assets were some trademarks and a complete customer list. The list includes customer purchases and their email addresses. Credit card information was not a part of the sale. If you don’t want B&N to have access to your information, you have the opportunity to opt out by November 2, 2011. That doesn’t mean B&N won’t try its best to convince you to stick around.

Now that Borders is no more, many people are pointing the finger at ebooks and blaming them for the company’s demise. It’s simply not true. If ebooks were so evil as to be able to bring down huge bookstore chains in a single download, Barnes and Nobel would be following them down the road to more »

The Kindle started it and now ebook readers have exploded in popularity. Ebooks now outsell traditional ones on Amazon and in addition to the stand alone readers offered by Borders, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Amazon and others, there are free apps for just about every mobile device and platform available. Why are e-book readers so more »

Today is when Borders starts it’s liquidation sales, but not before sending out an email to customers explaining what happened. It’s easy to poke fun at the bookstore for not being able to keep up, but the email that was sent out was actually pretty sad, and sounds heartfelt. In the email Borders explains everything more »

A few days ago Borders announced that it would be closing the last of it’s 399 remaining stores. Alongside that news came some confusion as to what will happen to Kobo, Borders’ eBook partner. It was said this could be bad for Kobo, but Kobo is saying that it’ll be fine. In a press release more »

It was revealed yesterday that Borders will be closing soon. As soon as this Friday, many of its locations around the United States may begin liquidation sales. Though Borders failed to make a noticeable impression in the eBook market, it does own a minority stake in Kobo. Kobo wants its customers to know that despite Borders, their book purchases on Kobo devices aren’t in any danger.

The journey is over for Borders. The company failed to find a buyer and will cease to exist in about two month’s time. All of Borders’ 399 stores will close down. Waldenbooks locations are also expected to close. Liquidation for Borders stores could begin as early as Friday.

Those who may have been holding off on the purchase of a Kobo branded ebook reader may want to check out the latest offering from Borders — a $99.99 Kobo Wireless Reader. And for those curious, that device is normally priced at $139.99, so we are talking a decent sale. With that, just do not more »

The Micro Cruz Reader and Micro Cruz Tablet from Velocity have come available for pre-order. As of now the devices are available on the Velocity website as well as with Borders. The Micro Cruz Reader is priced at $199.99 and expected to ship September 30th and the Micro Cruz Tablet is priced at $299.99 and more »

E-readers are becoming more and more popular and that’s sparked some price wars. Barnes and Noble dropped the price of their Nook to $149, and Amazon responding by promptly dropping the price of the red hot Kindle to $149 and introducing a sleeker, less expensive DX with a better screen. Borders got into the game more »