What's the difference between unpaid invoices and debt?

I believe unpaid invoices would be paid before debts if Boarders filed for bankruptcy.

Basically GE wants to know its going to get its money back before all the publishers who have sold stuff to Borders on credit get paid.

I agree with #4, Of the big book stores, Borders had generally carried a pretty deep selection of titles until about 2002. I could find many scholarly history books that B&N simply would not carry.

It's sad to see Borders struggle like this but what can you do?