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Originally Posted by bhartman36
Borders has/had the Kobo Reader, so they could've been in the same position B&N is in, but from what I read, the Kobo Reader just isn't as good as the Nook or Kindle. So it's more than just no-pants book buying that hurt them. What really hurt them was that their transition to e-books was lackluster.
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From what I read about the time of the bankruptcy filing, Kobo was a Borders acquisition, and it was really the only segment of Borders that was doing well.