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Can anyone explain why closed Borders is a good thing for our country?

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People are more stupid, keeps the blacks in, Donald Trump gets the Republican nomination, Mexican wall, your choice.
 
 
Amazon has been operating for 22 years.

I had fun visiting all the Borders shops around Boston.
Downtown Crossing had the best BBC collection of TV mystery series on DVD.
It was a shame when most of the corporate book stores closed.

It was proof of disaster, when remainder books were in equal numbers with new books on the shelves.

Waterstones would have survived, in Boston, because of the location. But, a developer had a golden opportunity, and a fire removed the possibility.

"2011, Barnes & Noble’s chief competition, Borders, ceased operation, shutting down almost 700 stores and sending more than 19,000 employees to the unemployment lines."

DEC. 15 2015
"The digital revolution has of course turned this charming vulnerability into a lethal one—witness the fate of Borders, Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, et al.—by converting the chain bookstore into little more than an air-conditioned showroom for Amazon.com."

How many brick and mortar bookstores does Amazon have, now ?
 
they closed multiple years ago in my home city. i go to used book shops or order online. on a rare occasion will i spend $20 on a new hardback.
 
At one time I loved Barnes and Noble. Then they started changing different sections, mixing them with other categories. The next thing I knew was I could no longer find one category of books. When I asked where this category went I was told it was mixed in with plain fiction. Next they moved to a Mall where parking was a nightmare. Before the move finding a parking space was easy.

Since Barnes and Noble was so hard finding a parking space I discovered Borders. It was easy finding a book at Bordersas they did not mix categories nor did they move categories all over the place. I hated to see them close down.
 
i actually liked borders more than barnes and nobles. it was just brighter and more open. still, i like used bookstores way better than either even though they're almost universally danker, darker and more crowded. why? because they're way cheaper. fucking duh.
 
neci said:
they closed multiple years ago in my home city. i go to used book shops or order online. on a rare occasion will i spend $20 on a new hardback.
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I was a die hard Kindle user, but anymore the electronic books cost just as much as the hardback! And the hardback at least has a pretty/interesting cover.

Now if only the hardback books would light up so I could read them in the dark....
 
We had either the first or one of the first ones. It wasn't doing well because the opened it next to a mall and in pretty affluent neighborhood. We all tried it in the beginning and it was ok. Once they started to cater to the uppity fucks and the Starbucks d-bags, it began to suck.

Like Tigersman said, they used to keep the categories tight, but that all stopped when they tried to please everyone.

We have some great small and pop shops but some owner are just bitter old fucks now and it's just no fun to shop there anymore.
 
Disgustipated said:
We had either the first or one of the first ones. It wasn't doing well because the opened it next to a mall and in pretty affluent neighborhood. We all tried it in the beginning and it was ok. Once they started to cater to the uppity fucks and the Starbucks d-bags, it began to suck.

Like Tigersman said, they used to keep the categories tight, but that all stopped when they tried to please everyone.

We have some great small and pop shops but some owner are just bitter old fucks now and it's just no fun to shop there anymore.
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Whatever....you just wanted to be under me.

We all know you're an uppity fuck who loves Starbucks. :devil:
 
Disgustipated said:
We had either the first or one of the first ones. It wasn't doing well because the opened it next to a mall and in pretty affluent neighborhood. We all tried it in the beginning and it was ok. Once they started to cater to the uppity fucks and the Starbucks d-bags, it began to suck.

Like Tigersman said, they used to keep the categories tight, but that all stopped when they tried to please everyone.

We have some great small and pop shops but some owner are just bitter old fucks now and it's just no fun to shop there anymore.
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The first was in Ann Arbor.
 
Aglaopheme said:
Yep. Better for my locally owned independent bookstore.
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Cherish them with abandon, Aggy. ;)

The indie bookstores, which used to be somewhat ubiquitous, are incredibly hard to maintain in this city and are nigh-extinct. Many longtime established stores that somehow made it through the last global financial sea change and print media bloodletting closed down within the last four years. Rents are HIIIIIIIIGH here, landlords are greedy and the shops flip biz like buttermilk cocaine pancakes. Even restaurants are hard to keep in retail spaces here beyond six months unless you're catering to the Black Amex Baby Bunch.

I miss the days when I'd just walk into an indie bookstore intending on browsing and walking out with two or three items I'd been looking to buy or found fascinating. I hear the erotica bookstores (used to be about five or six here back in the day) are holding out decently in other cities, though.
 
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