I don’t get this either. I liked Borders, went there all the time. They had a much better history selection than Barnes & Noble. But Amazon buried them.
A couple months ago I bought a Kindle. I absolutely love it. I will never go completely away from paper, but for travel I can take my library with me.
You don’t need a brick and mortar store to download an e-book.
Love Kindle [on my ipad, PC, etc.]. At home or wherever I go my library is there. Now I am very disappointed when there is a book I want and it is not available in Kindle. One of these days I will retire, move and I have a large collection of books that were of interest but perhaps of little real value.