Just thought I’d post the list of stores nationwide
This makes me very sad.
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.
What good are books when Democrat-run unionized schools produce students who can’t read???
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.
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?
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.
Hope & Change.
Bah. We don’t have a big enough town to rate Borders or Barnes and Noble, but in the closest big city they have closed all of the B&N’s except one, (and it is NOT easy to get to), and now they are closing the only Borders : / Being a reading family, we ALWAYS would stop, everyone would find at least one new book, and 2 cups of coffee for the ride home : |
Great recovery we are having...
May God give us strength.
Tatt
It’s a shame that more people will be out of work, but I buy books from Amazon.com. No tax, no shipping charges...
Crap. They’re closing mine.
I find myself going to Borders and Barnes & Noble just to window shop and then download the book I want from Amazon to my Kindle. If I’m reading a classic, .99 cents or Free is certainly a no brainer.
We’re not on it. Yeah!
My favorite of the chain stores. Much better selection than Barnes and Noble.
Sad to see this, but not surprised. Not many people read any more, and the ebooks are growing.
Bummer. I spent hours hanging out there reading the books. Made it much easier to figure out whether I actually liked the book before buying it on Amazon.com as Amazon.com only let you preview a few select pages online. Recently they rolled out Wi-Fi and that made it even easier to go book shopping as I could order from Amazon.com right from the store - very convenient.
When we asked for the borders to be closed...we didn’t mean these ones.
Seriously, disappointed to see so many stores close, so many people lose jobs, and so many more vacant buildings. Hope & change. Ugh.
Several near me are closing. Blockbuster is too.
I like going into stores.
We are fast becoming an isolated society with little contact with other people face fo face. It will be more controllable.
Technology is great for somethings, but it does have huge drawbacks that we are seeing now. One example is higher unemployment. Next thing is that we will not need so many people.