Tag Archives: Borders

Alibris will provide third-party selling on Borders

By Steve Weber | Published: May 24, 2007

The Alibris bookselling network will enable sellers to upload their inventory to Borders after that bookstore chain breaks its relationship with Amazon this year. For six years, the Borders Web site has been a branded version of Amazon.com, but Borders is striking out on its own to try to generate more profits. The company is recruiting [...]

Borders will bail from its Amazon contract

By Steve Weber | Published: November 27, 2006

Amazon has been handling Borders’ online operation for five years, but now Borders wants out. Will Borders launch its own third-party bookselling site? Let’s hope so. In my humble opinion, one of the reasons Amazon has made things so unfavorable to its Marketplace sellers in the past few months is it has no real competition for online [...]