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Lost a Borders? Books-A-Million may be on the way

By Carolyn Kellogg
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After the company’s bankruptcy, Borders bookstores are having their final going-out-of-business sales. Once those stores close, Borders will disappear from more than 600 retail locations.

But a handful of those stores will be replaced by another bookseller, Books-A-Million.

A deal between the two bookstores that would have had Books-A-Million take over 30 or more Borders leases failed to come together in late July. This week a Books-A-Million bid with the bankruptcy court to acquire 14 leases of former Borders locations was approved.

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The deal will mark Birmingham, Ala.-based Books-A-Million’s first moves into New England. The company has 230 retail locations. Publishers Weekly reports that the other Borders-to-Books-A-Million stores will be located in Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and South Dakota. In Rapid City, S.D., it will move into a 20,000-square-foot space.

Books-A-Million is to take over the leases beginning Sept. 20.

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-- Carolyn Kellogg

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.

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