Posted on 02/16/2011 12:32:30 PM PST by nuconvert
Borders Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday and said it will close about 30% (about 200) of its stores nationwide in the coming weeks.
(Click on WSJ link for complete list)
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Just thought I’d post the list of stores nationwide
This makes me very sad.
Not a big fan of Borders - they were always inferior to Barnes & Noble.
Thanks, I’m glad to see ours will survive for now.
My store in DeKalb, IL is closing. I’ll have to go to Rockford now.
This is just terrible. So many near me are closing. Very sad indeed. They already closed the one in my town a few years ago and I miss it bitterly. It’s not as though there were any independent booksellers to take the place of Borders, and it’s a long aggravating drive over to the Barnes and Noble store. That means there are likely to be far fewer impulse buys of books and magazines. Everybody loses.
It’s too bad they weren’t able to devise some way to reposition themselves, but perhaps only a repositioning of society as a whole could have saved them.
People are transitioning to e-books very, very quickly.
That’s the next (actually, current) boom.
What good are books when Democrat-run unionized schools produce students who can’t read???
How do you read e-books when the power is off? You can’t (at least, not for long). Regular books don’t have to be downloaded from some central source, for which you have to have an internet connection and a credit card. I like the old-style books, which no one controls for me or knows about. They’re my steadfast friends.
“Not a big fan of Borders - they were always inferior to Barnes & Noble.”
And more expensive!
We have a Borders store in Anchorage, a pretty darn big nice one, and it is going to close.
When I had the periodic occasion to visit Anchorage I would go there.We have a Walden book store in Wasilla but its a rather small store that prefers you order a book through them.
Personally I think Alaska is a very ripe market for E-books and a Kindle device, it just costs too much to either drive to a book store or to mail order.
Don’t know if they’re one of the “right” suppressor stores or not (stores that don’t sell conservative literature)...that would influence my opinion greatly about the importance of Borders demise.
Hmmmm . . . . click on the ‘State’ header to place the list in order by state. Looks to me like most of those closing are in areas infested by liberals. I guess us dumb conservatives buy more books, eh?
I agree. I used to like them but I found Barnes and Noble and they are better IMHO.
Paper books themselves depend on infrastructure and technology - the electric lights in your house, roads to transport from the publisher, brick & mortar stores, forests to harvest, etc.
All that is happening is that the nature and speed of the infrastructure we take for granted is changing. Now, we see from Egypt’s example that it is possible to shut down the internet, and Apple (or Amazon, or the Nook people) could suddenly invoke some code to erase or modify the e-book. Those are new risks that didn’t exist before with older technology - but remember, the Nazis were still able to burn a whole lot of paper books, too.
So there are definitely things we need to demand safeguards for, but in the meantime we’ll reap the benefits of the far more efficient and dynamic book delivery system.
Sorry to hear that. I was single, and not into bars when they first opened in our area. Before them, I had to make a regular trip the New York to get books and music that was not available in my area. Before them, there was no place for single people to hang out that didn’t serve booze. I’m not abstainer, I like a bit of whisky or stout, but I liked to nonbooze atmosphere in Borders. There was nowhere else, where I could sip coffee and read, except for home, which was pretty lonely.
Now that I’m a happily married man, and Amazon.com exists, I don;t get to Borders very much anymore, but I have fond memories of it.
In my small town nothing can take its place.
Equally as bad are government-run libraries.
The subsidized public library system, through our taxes and extravagant salaries to the overpaid staff, kill any chance of free enterprise filling that role. When public libraries got into the business of offering videos and DVDs, they stepped way over the line and effectively caused the death of businesses offering that service.
I really don't think Ben Franklin's vision of lending libraries squares with notion of tax-supported libraries.
In short when I see the word "public" or "national", it typically means Socialism is at work:
No, it's that conservatives tend to live where the land is cheaper, and populations are less dense. The stores that are closing are in urban centers (with the usual urban liberal demographic), and particularly in the "tony" shopping centers with high rent.
Borders is smartly using the bankruptcy provisions that allow them to "break" leases, and so their doing just that for their most expensive sales floors.
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