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Borderlands Books to Remain Open For at Least Another Year

Borderlands Books has announced it will remain open until at least March 31st of next year. The bookstore, which had only recently declared it was shutting down at the end of March 2015, made the announcement on their blog this past Saturday.

A sponsorship program, created after a February 12th community meeting was held to discuss ways to save the store, has provided Borderlands with the additional revenue the owner says he needs to remain profitable. Alan Beatts, the store’s owner, explained the program:

Starting immediately we will be offering paid sponsorships of the store.  Each sponsorship will cost $100 for the year and will need to be renewed every year.  If we get 300 sponsors before March 31st, we will stay open for the remainder of 2015.

As the sign above attests, Borderlands reached their goal of 300 sponsors and as a result will remain open for at least another year.

Comments (8)

great. You assholes blame minimum wage and get to stay open. You are full of shit and there are better alternatives down the street. Good luck!

suck it Casey, there is no alternative to Borderlands…..

See you at Dog Eared Books.

I just don’t understand the immense amount of wealth in this city, people are literally paying for this place merely to just exist on the block?  So they can stroll by with their Google hoodie and be glad such a thing exists while they head to the Michelin starred restaurant Range? 

If you fabulously wealthy people wish to support anyone, please help find the Vortex Room opening up on Mission street!

You totally miss the point of Borderlands.  It’s MY FAVORITE BOOKSTORE IN THE WORLD.  I buy stuff from them all the time.  I will gladly give them 100 bucks to stay open because my favorite thing in the world to do is go there and browse.  Having 100 bucks to give to your favorite thing does not mean you’re outrageously wealthy.   If you wouldn’t give them 100 bucks to stay open, that’s fine, don’t do it.  But don’t presume to know how everybody else feels about the place.  Sheesh.   

Pretty sure most google employees are too busy buying the newest electronic reading device to care about actual books with real paper pages.  

I’ve spent a combined total of 3 minutes in Borderlands - not my style of fiction - but $100 / year is nothing to help a store you love stick around….well, unless you’re one of the many people counting on the minimum wage hike that Borderlands is so against.

Well, your tax dollars pay for public libraries and parks. This is just the same thing, with specific voluntary benefactors: paying to keep a public social space open and running.

Well, I love them and I’m glad they’re going to stay open.  I like shopping in bookstores, and they have a lot of stuff that none of the other brick and mortar stores in the area have.  Not to mention a totally different aesthetic, etc.  Apparently, at least 300 people feel the way I do.  I agree that the minimum wage-blaming is a bummer but they found a way to work it out, so congrats to them.