Somehow it wasn't enough.
As I kept telling the manager of our local Borders, if you let people lounge around, stuffing their faces and reading the books all day, you’re gonna go out of business.
I was in the store several times a week, and saw repeat offenders.
One guy even bragged that he came every day, stayed all day and never bought anything...he just read the books, there.
Also, there were times that I went to buy a particular book, most memorably, a $60 Photoshop book, that was impossible to find anywhere else, only to discover that someone had spilled a drink containing chocolate all over it, effectively gluing the pages together.
Probably half the books I bought had food residue on them, because of all the freeloading-reader slobs, had read them while parked in the big comfy chairs, sipping their mochas and eating pastries.
There’s a Barnes & Noble and BooksAMillion 40 minutes away but their stock is crap, unless you want to read romance novels.
So I’m stuck with Amazon for a book store.
I might as well pay pennies on the dollar for used books, since I was paying full price for ‘used’ books at Borders, anyway.
And that’s why they collapsed...touchy-feely liberal store policies.
Remember Books ‘N Things?
If you thumbed through a book more than 10 seconds, they were all over you to either buy it or put it down.