Borders Closing Some Stores In Metro Area

DENVER (CBS4)- Six Borders locations will close in Colorado, including Boulder, Dillon, Greeley, Grand Junction, Littleton and Aurora.

As Borders restructures its business plan for the remaining stores, one of its goals is to grow its website and the e-book market share.

Borders does carry the Kobo e-book reader made by a Toronto-based company. Some analysts said part of the company's financial demise was weak digital competition and no device of its own, like the Nook sold by Barnes & Noble.

Independent booksellers, including the Tattered Cover, are competing by offering digital downloads.

"I'm expecting that over the next year or two years, and with the release of a lot of tablet devices in 2011, is going to accelerate this learning and people will realize that they can buy an e-book wherever they want to buy an e-book and read it on whatever device they are holding," Neil Strandberg with the Tattered Cover said.

Longtime customers and traditionalists have been keeping the Tattered Cover strong.