We were all worried that after Borders went out of business, we wouldn’t have a bookstore in town. However, as I just discovered, a company from Alabama bought the space where the Borders bookstore used to be and we will now have a bookstore once again!
A Birmingham, Ala.-based book store is buying up the Borders bookstore in Edwardsville.
According to the St. Louis Business Journal, book retailer Books-A-Million has received approval from a federal bankruptcy judge to take over the leases of the metro-east book store at 6601 Edwardsville Crossing Drive in Edwardsville and 13 others from the bankrupt chain. The business journal reported that Books-A-Million will pay $934,259 for the properties.
They only chose 14 of the many Borders locales around the country, and ours is one of them. This makes sense since we are a university town with many good readers inhabiting it.
I can’t wait to visit our new local bookstore.
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Mais ce n’est pas local, c’est un chain – ou non?
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Yes, I meant to say we will have a bookstore in our area.
I’m so starved right now, I can’t say anything right.
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Good news!
Bonjour, Z!
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Can’t remember whether you care about your anonymity or not, but if you do, consider that the town name in your block quote is a good clue.
Glad to hear bookstores aren’t dead there yet, in any case….
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Thank you, Vance, but I recently published my first and last name in a post by mistake, so I guess the anonymity is over. 🙂 I’m an Internet klutz, that’s who I am.
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