[AlexG]

Wall Street Journal – July 19, 2011
Borders Forced to Liquidate, Close All Stores.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576454353768550280.html

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Tre Scott]

I listened a piece on NPR earlier today, which offered an insightful look at why Borders went out of business, while Barnes & Noble has survived. It’s worth a listen and if you’d like to hear it, just go to the NPR website.

[Lingster]

I listened a piece on NPR earlier today, which offered an insightful look at why Borders went out of business, while Barnes & Noble has survived. It’s worth a listen and if you’d like to hear it, just go to the NPR website.

B&N has survived so far but the long-term doesn’t look so good. Mass-market paper books are approaching obsolescence. I love the Nook but it’s a holding tactic.

Books-A-Million FTW.

[SammiChung]

A sad sad day, all the way around, I want books to hold, to thumb through, I don’t want soulless electronic bits… I’m sorry but this ‘electronic’ books are nothing held up to the warm embrace of a friend that you find…

[AlexG]

Don’t know if mass market paper books are obsolete as that less and less people, in general, don’t have the inclination and/or the leisure time to read books for pleasure. As for those that still do, the portability of the digital format (i.e. an audiobook) offers an easier way to keep up while on the move.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Robert McNay]

Damn, I don’t have any place to go for the more obscure magazines I read, like Top Gear, Car, Military History Quarterly and Strategy & Tactics. It was also one of the few places, outside of hobby shops, that carried FineScale Modeler and Scale Auto Enthusiast.

Crap. 🙁 :unsure:

[jason]

Damn, I don’t have any place to go for the more obscure magazines I read, like Top Gear, Car, Military History Quarterly and Strategy & Tactics. It was also one of the few places, outside of hobby shops, that carried FineScale Modeler and Scale Auto Enthusiast.

Crap. 🙁 :unsure:

Books A Million closed in Augusta that was full of odd mags. Sucks.

[AlexG]

Damn, I don’t have any place to go for the more obscure magazines I read, like Top Gear, Car, Military History Quarterly and Strategy & Tactics. It was also one of the few places, outside of hobby shops, that carried FineScale Modeler and Scale Auto Enthusiast.

Crap. 🙁 :unsure:

Felt the same way when Kroch’s and Brentano’s closed in downtown Chicago back in the mid-90s. The place had every conceivable magazine you could ever want, and if it wasn’t there, it didn’t exist.

This all stores closing will also effect Waldenbooks, which is a subsidiary of the Borders Group.

“I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.”
~ Mark Twain / Samuel Clemens (1907)

[Robert McNay]

Felt the same way when Kroch’s and Brentano’s closed in downtown Chicago back in the mid-90s. The place had every conceivable magazine you could ever want, and if it wasn’t there, it didn’t exist.

What made K&B great was the paperback department downstairs was HUGE, and their science department was fantastic. Also, if they didn’t have a book they would order it, or, if out of print, they’d do a dealer search.

Last of the old time bookstores.

[Ashlee]

truly sad.

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