Boarders Books
Boarders Books Group has many physical bookstores across the world, but it no longer has an independent online presence.
Boarders Group inc. comprises more than 1200 boarders books stores and Waldenbooks stores around the world. It's a Fortune 500 company with $3.4 billion sales. There are 445 Boarders books superstores in the US and 37 elsewhere, mainly in the UK and the Pacific rim. There are also 36 Books etc stores throughout Great Britain that belong to the Boarders books group.
Boarders have joined forces with Amazon.com to provide online book selling. There are Boarders books stores across the world from San Francisco to London. Boarders books are very much geared to providing a bookshop experience and their websites encourage you to visit one of their stores. They provide an excellent location finder so you easily find out where your nearest Boarders books is situated.
- Boarders books is the only US bookstore to go global.
Boarders Books UK
Boarders books in the UK are spread right across the country, in: Beckton, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Ellesmere Port, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Oxford, Swansea, and York. Boarders also run several Books etc stores in and around London.
Boarders Books History
Tom and Louis Boarders, two brothers living in Ann Arbor, Michigan opened a used bookshop called Boarders Books in 1971 and expanded to include several more stores around Michigan. Boarders Books' success is due to each store's serving its local community.