Michael57

Borders Alternate Model Makes Sense

wassercom, how many stores have you visited?

Borders Alternate Model Makes Sense

Exactly. It kind of makes you wonder how wrong-headed a lot of financial reporting is. People in the book business know that the Harper Studio story is utterly trivial and has no implications at all for Borders' basic business model. But most investors reading this article will think that Borders is reinventing the wheel.

How many other stocks rise and fall on uninformed reporting?

Borders Alternate Model Makes Sense

5 titles out of 120,000 are going to be purchased non-returnable. What a non-story. Reuters, WSJ, everyone else, piling onto this trivial snippet in the hopes that it means something.

Booksellers: Contemplating Life Without Music and Harry Potter

I don't understand how they can claim that the absence of Harry Potter the past year made such a big difference in gross profit numbers, since they were actually making almost no profit on HP. The analyst who said that was a good response must not know much about the book business.

Retailers Beware: Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service

What a non-story.

Borders: 4th Quarter Earnings Show Positive Signs

Is it still a Borders store if inventories are dramatically reduced? The jury is still out on whether the public will still consider them a "superstore" when they don't have depth of inventory. If all they are is a glorified Wal-Mart with a cafe, this is the beginning of a death spiral.