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Borders remained the retailer come lately, minimal online presence and they got into the ebook market late.
I think I mentioned elsewhere that my friend was a store manager. Her Borders Express (i.e., small, normal-sized rather than mega-store) closed down around the same time as the 25k+ sq foot monstrosities earlier this year, but for different reasons ... the mall didn't renew their lease. As a consequence, she was released in a different manner than the managers of the big stores and came out ahead of the game ... got her retirement, for example, which the closure store managers didn't.
A lot of the people affected by this are longer-term employees, the ones who really love selling books, and have been with the chain for 10 or more years.
It's a shame, but it's not surprising.
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