Bye bye Borders :(

Never liked Borders.

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pretty soon we will be downloading food. FOOD I SAY!

Lto_thaG

While the print market dying help to usher them out the door quickly, honestly they've been dying for a while due to the usual U.S. retail chain problems of upper management being replaced with business school grads with no real life experience and failed execs from other companies looking to "make a change" in the company which generally means bringing poorly thought out programs with no payroll support and the usual huge hate on employees in general.

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pretty soon we will be downloading food. FOOD I SAY!

Pirate700

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whats a kindle?

*http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Wireless-Reader-Wifi-Graphite/dp/B002Y27P3M

ooooooooooooooooh that is fancy. Are they any good?

mrbojangles25

yeah, I am sold on getting one. Going to ask for one for Christmas. I love books, but atm I am moving so much it simply is not practical to hold onto the boxes of books I have, so I don't read as much as I like.

Kindle sounds perfect for me. Might have to get one sooner than Christmas to be honest.

The whole e-ink thing is fascinating, sounds like an Etch a Sketch in a way :P

*Still, my only concern is selection. I am sure th ere are more than enough books I can get via Kindle, but idunno...

Their s Barnnes and Nobles right down the street from where Borders was so it's all good.

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pretty soon we will be downloading food. FOOD I SAY!

Pirate700

I always loved Borders Books. Their rewards program was free unlike Barnes and Noble's rewards program ($10 a year to earn rewards or discounts on books?). I always liked going to their bookstore and they always had a great selection of the books I like (WWII history). I still buy books online through Borders.com. I wonder if that will survive.

As far as the Kindle, the first ones may have been nice and had a backlight if I recall, but the newest ones with the e-ink sucks as there is no backlight which means it is not good for reading in low light or no light conditions. My Sis got one on her birthday and I tested it out. While it wasn't bad, even after reading the manual and searching online about it, there is no way to enable a backlight as it apparently just does not exist with the e-ink. Might as well be a real book in that case.

If I have to, I will start ordering the books I want through other sources, but hope Borders at least stays viable online. I get upwards of 40% off on books I order with the coupons I get via email.

You can order Dominos pizza online :)

YellowOneKinobi

I do that all the time.

Soon physical copies of books will be rare. I came from the future to let you all know this.

Borders being overpriced seems to be a reoccurring theme. They should have just copied Apple. They're overpriced and they sell.Hexagon_777

Except for the fact that Borders being overpriced is generally untrue. They sold things for their standard retail price just as Barnes and Nobles does with various regular sales on items on coupons just like Barnes and Nobles. I'm assuming when people are thinking they are overpriced they're really comparing it to Amazon that often sells things for under cost and well as large chains like Best Buy that also sell items such as a CDs and DVDs for under cost as loss leaders in the hopes that you will buy electronics for which the profit margin is huge. It's the same thing that drove pretty much all the record stores out of business even before file sharing could completely doom them.

Borders Books and Music has failed to find a buyer, and will liquidate all remaining stores. I loved this store - where else could you get a coffee, look at books and magazines, music, and flirt with cute college girls in the same place? This is especially bad for me, as there is one literally a block from my apartment. Now the only bookstore left in my community is a dinky used book store a few blocks away. I have spent countless hours in the aisles at borders, and have spent undoubtedly a thousand dollars or more. OT, do you mourn the loss of this retailer? LinkEngrish_Major

You don't have a Barnes & Noble? I thought they were everywhere like WalMart but on a small scale. I personally prefer Barnes & Noble as per the niceness, the refreshments, the open spaciousness, the selection, etc. However, I've been in Borders more than a few times. I see that Borders owned Waldenbooks which means they're going as well. I also see that B.Dalton Booksellers is defunct. I grew up with B.Dalton and Waldenbooks and now they're both gone as well as Borders. Looks like Barnes & Noble has take the monopoly. It's not a real monopoly since there's still smaller retailers, but they've taken the monopoly on chains basically. At least they're the one I use the most so I won't notice. I also get most of my books as ebooks online, so I really won't notice at all. Too bad for all the employees and loyal customers though. RIP Borders/Waldenbooks.

[QUOTE="Hexagon_777"]Borders being overpriced seems to be a reoccurring theme. They should have just copied Apple. They're overpriced and they sell.Lord_Daemon

Except for the fact that Borders being overpriced is generally untrue. They sold things for their standard retail price just as Barnes and Nobles does with various regular sales on items on coupons just like Barnes and Nobles. I'm assuming when people are thinking they are overpriced they're really comparing it to Amazon that often sells things for under cost and well as large chains like Best Buy that also sell items such as a CDs and DVDs for under cost as loss leaders in the hopes that you will buy electronics for which the profit margin is huge. It's the same thing that drove pretty much all the record stores out of business even before file sharing could completely doom them.

Exactly. All one had to do is look inside the cover flap then look at the sticker on the back of the cover to see the exact same price. I almost always bought books at below MSRP due to the email coupons, especially the 30 and 40% off coupons. Still, there was plenty of times I walked out with $100 worth of books in my arm (yes, I read a lot). For hard to find books, I do go to Amazon, but I always liked Borders, seemed more homey.

You don't have a Barnes & Noble? I thought they were everywhere like WalMart but on a small scale. I personally prefer Barnes & Noble as per the niceness, the refreshments, the open spaciousness, the selection, etc. However, I've been in Borders more than a few times. I see that Borders owned Waldenbooks which means they're going as well. I also see that B.Dalton Booksellers is defunct. I grew up with B.Dalton and Waldenbooks and now they're both gone as well as Borders. Looks like Barnes & Noble has take the monopoly. It's not a real monopoly since there's still smaller retailers, but they've taken the monopoly on chains basically. At least they're the one I use the most so I won't notice. I also get most of my books as ebooks online, so I really won't notice at all. Too bad for all the employees and loyal customers though. RIP Borders/Waldenbooks.

Sunfyre7896

Borders was too slow to adapt to current technology. Not that Barnes and Noble didn't do everything better anyway.

the store you just described sounded exactly like barnes and noble.

You have an awesome book store right at your finger tips called Amazon, so who cares.

You have an awesome book store right at your finger tips called Amazon, so who cares.

AmazonTreeBoa

well there is always Barnes and Noble. Doesn't bother me since neither book store is particularly close to my house. Of I could just flip open my laptop and go to Amazon.

Last time I bought a book from Borders was in 2003, when I was at the mall with my parents. I think I was 12 at the time.

Oh well, won't miss it. Their prices were a tad high. It's all Amazon.com and e-books for me...

won't miss it really.

the one i went to a lot in Milwaukee was priced obnoxiously.

All those saying paper books are dead are ... well I've got modded before for speaking my mind so I won't say what they are. SilverSignal

Paper books are probably going to be sold in Mom and Pop shops, like records are now, in the not so distant future.imaps3fanboy

[QUOTE="imaps3fanboy"]Paper books are probably going to be sold in Mom and Pop shops, like records are now, in the not so distant future.Serraph105

I'm slightly saddened, I bought most of my books from there.

I liked them, but it seems that brick and mortar stores are having a harder time competing with internet companies that dont have to collect sales tax.

Paperback books will never die because they don't need a battery, it may be that they become a niche market but they will never be fully gone. I love books, hate those stupid e-reader things. angrules23

Hopefully Barnes and Noble can stay around.spazzx625

I would cry.

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I've never been in one of the stores. :?

I have always bought from Amazon. Much better prices.

Won't miss 'em in the slightest.

what a shame. they can thank society for becoming more and more illiterate.

They were overpriced anyway so they won't be missed. Amazon is all I need. 8)

what a shame. they can thank society for becoming more and more illiterate.

dissonantblack

I do not think that has anything to do with this situation.