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1. www.barnesandnoble.com › h › bordersBarnes & Noble Welcomes Borders® Bookstore Customers

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   Barnes & Noble welcomes Borders ®, Waldenbooks ®, Brentano’s ®, and all their customers to discover their next great read at Barnes & Noble, the nation’s largest retail bookseller.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › WaldenbooksWaldenbooks - Wikipedia

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   Waldenbooks was an American shopping mall-based bookstore chain operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., and from 1995 was a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.

3. www.businessinsider.com › bookstores-closedBooksellers That Have Closed for Good Across the Years ...

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   Oct 6, 2019 · In 1992, Kmart stepped in and bought Borders and merged the bookseller with its previous acquisition, Waldenbooks, the New York Times reported. The acquisition quickly fell apart that same year...

4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Borders_GroupBorders Group - Wikipedia

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   Borders Group, Inc. (former NYSE ticker symbol BGP) was an American multinational book and music retailer based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooks stores.

5. www.youtube.com › watchWaldenbooks: Eight Decades in Reading - Post-Mortar - YouTube

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   Aug 19, 2021 · The story of Waldenbooks, founded in 1933 in Boston, MA. They quickly became one of the largest booksellers in North America, succumbing to financial issues under Borders Group in 2011. Here's...

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6. www.publishersweekly.com › pw › by-topicTracking 20 Years of Bookstore Chains - Publishers Weekly

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   Aug 26, 2011 · It was acquired by Waldenbooks, itself owned by Kmart, in 1992 to jump-start Walden’s superstore expansion. After Kmart merged Walden and Borders, the bookstore chain was spun off as its own...

7. www.cnn.com › 2011 › USThe death and life of a great American bookstore - CNN.com

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   Sep 12, 2011 · The problems began three years later, he said, when Kmart spun off the Borders division -- which now included another Kmart book retailer, Waldenbooks -- and the company went public.

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   Who owns Walden Books?

   • Waldenbooks was an American shopping mall -based bookstore chain operated by the Walden Book Company, Inc., and from 1995 was a subsidiary of Borders Group. The chain also ran a video game and software chain under the name Waldensoftware, as well as a children's educational toy chain under Walden Kids.

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   What happened to Walden Books?

   • It was acquired by Waldenbooks, itself owned by Kmart, in 1992 to jump-start Walden’s superstore expansion. After Kmart merged Walden and Borders, the bookstore chain was spun off as its own company and will disappear this fall.

   Tracking 20 Years of Bookstore Chains - Publishers Weekly

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   When did Waldenbooks become a bookstore?

   • In 1987, Waldenbooks acquired the U.S. stores of the Canadian bookstore chain Coles Book Stores Ltd. and gradually converted the stores to Waldenbooks. By 1990, Waldenbooks began to convert Waldenbooks & More into even larger Waldenbooks & More Books stores with a greatly expanded book selection.

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   Does Walden Books still exist?

   • By 2001, the company was completely liquidated. The name still lives on at a few locations, although it is not associated with the original chain, according to the San Diego Reader. Waldenbooks, as seen in "Stranger Things."

   Booksellers That Have Closed for Good Across the Years - Business Insid…

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