Borders decides to donate books instead of destroy them

Borders takes a tip from its readers and decides not to destroy its surplus books and donate them instead.Excerpt:Online activists have cried out during the last month that giant Book retailer Borders is defying common sense with their announcement that they are closing some 200 stores of the Waldenbooks chain by the end of January. Not because everyone will miss Waldenbooks (yeah, we thought they were long gone too), but because Borders planned to trash all the unsold books from the stores.Change.org wrote Thursday that the company planned to tear the covers off the books and dump the books so they can’t be resold. The destruction of the books is a standard practice in the industry.Borders employees, hoping to shame the company into changing their ways ala H&M have formed a Facebook group to support the donation of the books to local libraries and nonprofits instead.Read the rest of the story here.