However, industry insiders say the demise or Borders was both long foreseen and almost inevitable. René Goiffon, president of Harmonia Mundi USA, says his label had decided to stop selling to the chain in July 2010. In Goiffon's words, Borders was "the perfect model of disaster. Basically, in the past few years, they had no idea what to buy or how to buy. So they'd purchase 2000 copies of a title, return 1800 of them, and then the label would be stuck with all this extra, depreciating stock."

Borders' buying patterns also made for fan frustrations, Goiffon asserts. "For years," he notes, "we pushed in vain to get them to target buying geographically: Instead of sending most of their stock to the biggest markets for classical music, such as New York, they'd send four or five copies of each title to every single store they had — so New York would sell out and be stuck, while all those other copies languished in other stores around the country."

Visited a couple of Borders locations near home only to find that even with a liquidation sale going on, they've got nothing to offer me.

I don't buy physical books anymore, so their 10%-30% discounts are of no value to me there.
I might have picked up season 3 of True Blood, but it's cheaper at Best Buy.
I might have picked up a copy of Serenity on Blu-ray, but it's cheaper at Best Buy.

Seriously, for a place that's going out of business, they don't seem to be trying very hard to get rid of stock.

I hope we get a replacement bookstore in the mall. The B&N is down by the campus and I always forget it is there. Maybe they'll have the new Honor book on sale as part of the closeout