Visitors to Borders.com today will be redirected to Barnes & Noble’s website and a message from B&N CEO William Lynch: “Welcome Borders customer. At Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) we share your love of books…we hope you’ll give us a chance to be your bookstore.” B&N has also taken over…

In order to clinch its purchase of 40 million customer names from bankrupt Borders, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) made a series of promises to the court on steps it would take to protect the privacy of those customers. Now a consumer advocate claims the company broke its pledge.

A bankruptcy judge in New York approved Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property, including its valuable customer list. The approval came after the parties offered a new proposal about how to protect the privacy interests of 48 million former Borders customers, and comes four days after…

Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property assets is on hold after a federal judge said he needed more time to consider privacy issues related to the bankrupt bookseller’s customer list.

The messy liquidation of Borders has taken a new twist. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) indicated in a court filing late yesterday that it would seek to back out of its $13.9 million purchase of its former competitor’s intellectual property assets if a bankruptcy judge forces it to abide by…

Multiple bidders separately acquired a variety of intellectual property assets from bankrupt Borders, including its trademarks and website address, according to the company charged with running the auction.

Next Jump, the firm that managed Borders’ Perks program and was then sued by the bookseller, is fighting back. Two weeks ago, Borders sued Next Jump, accusing the firm of trying to steal half-a-million of its rewards customers. Now, Next Jump says that lawsuit was an effort to deflect Borders’ …

With Borders on its way out, the Alabama-based Books-A-Million has taken its place the second-largest bookstore chain in the United States. Now it’s closing four of its 232 stores, and its net sales were down 11.2 percent in the first half of this year—though its sales of Barnes & Noble’s…

Borders was e-reading company Kobo’s first—and, so far, only—U.S. bookstore partner. And when it became clear in recent months that Borders was going out of business, Kobo worked hard to disassociate itself from the failed brand. That battle isn’t over yet.

Next Jump, the company that Borders sued for contacting Borders Rewards customers and redirecting them to its own site, has agreed to take to take down its BordersRewardsPerks.com website and stop contacting Borders customers.

For a while last week it looked as though Alabama-based bookstore chain Books-A-Million might snap up thirty Borders stores. But that deal, like so many others in the Borders saga, has fallen apart.

In an e-mail to customers, Borders CEO Mike Edwards tells them to visit liquidation sales for “exceptional discounts” and explains what will happen with Borders Rewards discounts and gift cards.

In a week filled with bad news for Borders, here’s one possible bright spot: Birmingham, Ala.–based bookseller Books-A-Million may rescue up to 35 Borders stores from liquidation.

Why did Borders fail and what does its shuttering mean for Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), book publishers and others? Here is our FAQ.

Yesterday’s news that the Borders bookstore chain is going to be sold off—much of it probably at fire-sale prices—means that some of the nation’s biggest publishers are going to be taking a bath, financially. Five publishing houses are owed more than $25 million by the bookstore chain, and many others…

Borders is closing its 399 remaining stores and 11,000 employees are being laid off. In a statement, Borders Group President Mike Edwards said, “We were all working hard towards a different outcome, but the headwinds we have been facing for quite some time, including the rapidly changing book industry, e-reader…

Borders’ would-be saviors have fallen away, and right now the only bid on the table is from the liquidators.

The Borders auction that seemed like a sure thing just a couple of weeks ago is now up in the air as it appears that the remaining stores may be liquidated instead of bought.

Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA) CEO John Malone finally broke his silence on the company’s possible acquisition of Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) at the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley this week. He says he’s betting on the fact that Barnes & Noble could become a major competitor against…