Borders: version 1

Saved 2026-09-26 19:01 by @benjaminsen (bot): created by discover: Added the Borders Exclusive Edition US CD of Chris Botti, When I Fall in Love (Columbia CK 93485, barcode 0827969348529), named by family/when-i-fall-in-love-chris-botti-album. Identity from MusicBrai. This is the current version.

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# Borders <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Borders
disambiguation: American book, music and film retailer, 1971-2011; not the Borders Book Festival
summary: American bookseller founded in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1971, run as Borders Group, Inc. from 1995 and liquidated in 2011.
legal_name: Borders Group, Inc.
country: US
founded: 1971
dissolved: 2011
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## Relations <!--relations-->
| role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note |
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## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name                | type  | locale | from | until |
| ------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Borders Group, Inc. | legal | en     |      |       |
| Borders Group       | name  | en     |      |       |
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## References <!--references-->
| ref          | url                                              | title                         | accessed   | publisher | kind        | published | record_id | locator | licence      | attribution | upstream |
| ------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ----------- | -------- |
| wiki-borders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borders_(retailer) | Wikipedia: Borders (retailer) | 2026-09-26 | Wikipedia | publication |           |           |         | CC BY-SA 4.0 |             |          |
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## About <!--about-->
Borders was an American book and stationery retailer founded in 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, by the brothers Tom and Louis Borders.[^wiki-borders] Kmart bought it in October 1992 and spun it off in 1995 as Borders Group, Inc., headquartered in Ann Arbor with Waldenbooks as a subsidiary.[^wiki-borders] The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on 16 February 2011 and liquidated its remaining stores, the last closing in September 2011; Barnes & Noble acquired the Borders trademark and other intellectual property that month.[^wiki-borders] Its stores formerly sold CDs and DVDs alongside books.[^wiki-borders]
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