Stop Borders from trashing thousands of unsold books

Thanks Borders! You move in to a location and undercut everyone's prices, when they go out of business full retail price! And who the fuck pays 19 dollars for the cds they sell there? How the fuck does that place stay in business. Support your local bookstores!

Its not the bookstores its the publishers. I worked for a bookstore in the 90's and we were told to remove books strip off the front covers and trash the books. The publishers told us do not donate or sell these books. they give the store credit towards other books they want to sell. I never under stood it. still don't. So Complain to the publishers not the store. the big stores won't care and the little one can not afford to upset their apple carts...

I actually recently Polled a few people on this & what they think SHOULD be done! Though many people I polled said that electronic books are great for school &/or places where carting around a ton of books has long been required!Nearly every person I talked to said That even with electronic books & the decline of book sales , physical books are still very much needed & some books are just better in book form! EVERYONE I talked with said it would be very wasteful to simply destroy books! Citing such things as literacy & recycling as reasons they they thought books shouldn't just be destroyed! Some people said that Walden Books should donate the books to schools & shelters & pretty much any place where books could help educate people! Personally I've been going to bookstores & libraries since I was born & the fact that a company like this would just destroy books really sickens me !

Schools and Public Libraries!

Man, this is causing me physical pain...unless, of course they are destroying only their copies of the Danielle Steele collection, in which case I will light the match (kidding)...

As donations , would they not be tax write offs ?

Well, maybe if Borders wasn't so expensive...

At the VERY least, RECYCLE them!!

I just don't understand why. I don't see how this is the best way for Borders' to dispose of unsold books. Just another H&M incident.

Because donating them is just not profitable?? WTF......

Welcome to america.

Hopefully this was a rumor or the executive that came up with this horrible idea has come to his/her senses. It would be a waste to destroy books of knowledge that many institutions could use. If nothing else, donate them and take the all American tax deduction.

America! Land of the wasteful !

Most bookstores throws books in the dumpster. It is very expensive to deal with thousands of unsold books, and most bookstores do not make a lot of money. Recycling programs are available for paperbacks, but there are not many options for dealing with books people just don't seem to want.

I really don't understand the mentality of the companies who are presented with such opportunities, and are in the position to donate items to charity or other company stores etc.

the fucks... can't they just donate the books to african school!

This is done with food, now it is being done with books. First nutrition down the dumpster, now knowledge. UNITED STATES OF GREED!

All I can say is not cool man not cool...Does this remind anyone of ray bradbury's book Farenheit 451?

Why would they destroy the books from one bookstore instead of just incorporating them into their other bookstores?

Welcome to America

Sarah Palin should sign on to light the first match.

Dont just tell us about the discard of thousands of books. we need to know which locations are leaving books in trash cans so we can scoop them up. for the sake of literacy

I used to live within walking distance from a Borders bookstore and I would dumpster dive for books and magazines there quite often.

Schools , public libraries , me ...... What a waste !

Couldn't some of these books go to any of the programs that make books available to children who would not otherwise have any books? Or to one of the other programs that support literacy? How many libraries would be glad to have them- certainly the libraries in small towns could use some of them?

Does it break their miserly little corporate hearts to let anyone or anything benefit from something they could not profit from?

This is exactly what's wrong with American business and the reason THEY DON'T DESERVE YOUR BUSINESS.

This is just idiotic, but as long as its books like Harry Potter and twilight I'm fine with it

What a way to waste a good thing.

wow book burning. The NAZIs did that. so did pope clement...
and they can't donate them for tax breaks to New Orleans Public Library?
These people are criminals. I'm not going back to Borders. I'll cut up my discount card. That's it.

recycle or donate!!!!!

what the fuck is wrong with these people, who's disgustingly wasteful and ignorant idea is this?!?!?!

on a softer note...i had no idea they were closing stores; any particular region where?

Hell, if they have these books out in the trash like in the picture, I'd be more than happy to drop on by and get some free books! With all the waste you might as well hoarde as many as you can and make your own book store.

Send them overseas! There are so many people that would appreciate books.

Holy balls, donate the books to libraries or something for a tax break!

Books, I couldn't live without them. I had a Waldens credit card and belonged to their frequent buyers club. I gave books as presents. They left our town along time ago and I've never found a book store francise that I felt so at home in since....even with couches and coffee the others never satisfied me like Waldens. The people that worked there loved books and enjoyed your shopping experience and your purchase with you not just a, "Next, Please!"
Oh, my I'm going to start singing"Reading Rainbow" just take a look, it's in a book.....

so one of the many closing stores is in the mall where i work which is awesome because i could buy books at reasonable prices. i was in there today on my lunch break and theres barely anything left and what is left is probably better off in the trash. any book ever written by a comedy central roaster was still available and the religion section were untouched as well as several sarah palin books. still i agree that they should at least send whats left to the salvation army

Thrift stores? donate? ugh what a waste...

Give them to me! I could find several things to do with them! Why are so many companies so wasteful these days? They SHOULD be smart enough to figure out something better to do with the books then destroy them! Especially now that literacy rates worldwide seem to be on a bit of a decline!!!

This is tragic. I bought lots of the books from which I learned Windows, Java, Web, and Internet programming at Borders bookstores in the 1990's. Before Borders appeared, was getting my computer books at B. Dalton's and Waldenbooks.

Websites have some good writing, but it is a mixed batch and it takes time to find a good book's worth of good articles. Even then, you do not get the same learning experience.