Bookstores

Why monkey with a good thing? Curious George bookstore to re-open in Harvard Square

adamg — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:50:23 +0000

Wicked Local Cambridge reports a Roslindale couple is working to re-open the shuttered kids' bookstore in the heart of the square. Reopening is sometime this spring.

Harvard Book Store: We're doing just fine, thank you very much

adamg — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:47:34 +0000

Jeff Mayersohn, owner of the iconic Harvard Square shop, sent e-mail to fans:

As Rachel noted in a recent newsletter, we just completed our best holiday season in quite some time. The volume of business happily surprised us after years of challenge. Despite this unanticipated demand, our amazing staff rose to the occasion, the publishers supplied us with the books we needed, and our customers showered us with much appreciated holiday cheer. We are very thankful as we head into 2012. ... It is clear that the rumors of the demise of independent bookstores have been greatly exaggerated. Entrepreneurs continue to enter the industry, reimagining how the printed word is distributed to passionate readers. It has been an exciting year, but we promise you that the coming year will be even more exciting.

Via Danielle Dreilinger.

Large discounts at bookstore going out of sale

adamg — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:34:59 +0000

No, not that one. Village Books, 751 South St. in Roslindale, is having its final, down-to-bare-walls sale this weekend - all remaining books 30-50% off and even the furniture and decorations are up for sale.

A scene from the last chapter

adamg — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:01:06 +0000

Matthew I. framed the scene at the Downtown Crossing Borders yesterday.

Copyright Matthew I. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Borders makes it official; time to play taps

adamg — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:58:37 +0000

Chain announces plans to liquidate; means 11,000 employees, including those in Downtown Crossing, will soon be out of jobs:

Subject to the Court's approval, under the proposal, liquidation is expected to commence for some stores and facilities as soon as Friday, July 22, with a phased rollout of the program which is expected to conclude by the end of September.

What, the Globe's never heard of Kenmore Square?

adamg — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:43:43 +0000

One of those people who read the Globe even on Saturdays noticed this story, in which the region's paper of record says the closing of the Downtown Crossing Borders would leave Boston with "only one chain bookstore in Boston: the Barnes & Noble in the Prudential Center."

Borders reprieve might have only been temporary

adamg — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:21:35 +0000

The entire chain is now on the brink of liquidation after the collapse of a financing effort, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Reprieve for Borders Books in Downtown Crossing?

Ron Newman — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:19:51 +0000

It looks like Borders has cancelled its plan to close Downtown Crossing and 50 other stores, in preparation for selling the entire chain to the highest bidder next month. The salesperson who answered the phone yesterday at Downtown Crossing says that liquidation won't start on July 1 as previously announced.

Maybe we'll be lucky and the buyer will keep it open. Meanwhile, if you have a Borders gift card or any loyalty points, you should spend them immediately.

Roslindale's only bookstore closing

adamg — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:28:30 +0000

The Globe reports the impending demise of Village Books.

Mourning the Downtown Crossing Borders

adamg — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:45:46 +0000

Maureen Rogers is left wondering where she'll go for new books now:

When I saw the news the other day, I immediately dropped in and spent nearly a hundred bucks on books, boo-hooing all the way.

Borders Books at Downtown Crossing is closing

Ron Newman — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:11:15 +0000

After seeing the rumor posted on Twitter and LiveJournal, I just now phoned the store to confirm. Liquidators are taking over the store on July 1. The store was unable to renegotiate its lease with the landlord under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

This will leave no new-book stores at all in Downtown Boston. Barnes & Noble closed a block away in 2006.

(x-posted to b0st0n LiveJournal)

Another Harvard Square bookstore bites the dust: Curious George to shut this month

adamg — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:20:25 +0000

Publishers Weekly writes the final chapter, just a few days after also informing us that the Globe Corner Bookstore is going away this month as well.

Globe Corner Bookstore's final chapter is this month

adamg — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:21:44 +0000

Publishers Weekly posts the impending obit for the Harvard Square store, which goes out of business at the end of this month, several years after it left the Downtown Crossing location that gave it its name. The owner says he couldn't find anybody to buy the place; will continue to operate globecorner.com.

Via Chris Klein.

Not enough brains in Braintree? Another Borders bookstore closing soon

Ron Newman — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 23:30:07 +0000

Borders Books has added Braintree to the list of stores it is closing due to Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Borders previously announced that it would close stores on Boylston Street (Back Bay), Burlington, Peabody, and Chestnut Hill.

At least for now, Borders stores in Downtown Crossing (Washington St), CambridgeSide Galleria, Dedham, Kingston, Mansfield, Marlboro, and Methuen are to stay open as usual.

And in Chapter 11, the bookstore closes

Ron Newman — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:10:03 +0000

Borders Books, which filed for bankruptcy protection this morning, will close its Back Bay and Wayside Commons (Burlington) stores, according to this list on the Wall Street Journal website. (Click on the 'Zip Code' header to put all the Massachusetts stores at the top.)

The Downtown Boston and Cambridgeside Galleria stores are safe -- for now. But if you have a Borders gift card sitting around, today would be a good time to spend it, before the stores' inventory begins to deplete.