I don’t know about you guys, but I did it by picking the meat off its bones like a common vulture. Bought about 8 books at a significantly reduced price.
What? is Borders no more? The store near where I live closed down over a year ago and became a H&M store, but I thought that was just that particular one that closed down and not the whole damn chain.
Yep, the whole damn show. It surprised as much as it did you. I thought they were doing good. Apparently, Barnes and Nobles beat them to the jump on the digital book phenomonon.
Didn’t know they had them in London.
A lot of people I have seen in Borders were just scanning instead of buying. Today’s economy has also contributed to it’s demise.
Yes. Because of that, some analysts are suggesting that Border’s closing may actually hurt the online and digital market.
And I had suspected its possibility as digital and online bookstores grew in popularity. It was already hurting, I’m sure. But as you suggest, the general economy probably did it in. You have to wonder where all these young people are going to find jobs. There are only so many fast food restaurants and ice cream shops, and record shops have pretty much preceded the bookstores into oblivion for pretty much the same reason. And that’s a lot of buying power just gone. The way its going here, if we don’t step down and take our place among other western industrialized nations and adopt some of their models, we’re going end up worse: they may one day be talking about us as if we were some third world country. The only way I see out of this is an expansion of the public economy.
To me, its all like a prisoners dilemma gone to the worst possible outcome because every one’s acting purely out of their own interest -from the people who used the bookstores, to those who abandon the bookstores for the convenience of online and digital, to the companies that profited from it.
I liked Borders and when I went, I bought. There probably several factors that ruining this kind of trade. The internet may be largest cause. I know it has deliterious effects on the music industry. I prefer audio books to the printed word. Is it possible that Borders could have adjusted how they approached the market they were in? Maybe…but it still may have netted only a little better results. Large companies like this should have the ability to read the writing on the wall to prevent this type of collapse…perhaps not.
As did I. For all my issue with “the man”, I’m a little too timid and prone to bad conscience to just take something for free like that -especially with a place like Borders that offered you the free service of being able to sit there and read their books without actually buying it.
And yes, you would think they would have seen the writing on the wall. But what really surprises me is that Barnes and Nobles outlasted them. I always prefered Border’s selection of books over theirs -especially in the philosophy section.
Plus that, Borders sent me a lot of discount coupons. On the other hand, that may be why they went broke.
Yeah, we had a few around London, and Books ETCs and Waterstones - I bought some books and plenty of magazines from my local Borders, which I would read whilst supping on a hot beverage in the Starbucks upstairs… oh why did you have to desert us Borders, whhhhhhhhhhy? 
I grieve with you, brother. I will miss the philosophy section.
I mourn their magazine section the most, as they had almost every magazine publication known to man, and now I can barely find the magazines I want in the news-agents around my high-street 
then 2nd for me was the Psychology section, closely followed by Philosophy and a nice cup of tea 
Thank god (whatever it is( that we have the internet.
Thinking about subscribing to Paris Review, or Harpers, or Poetry. The Progressive or the The Nation would be nice as well.
In our particular world of highly competitive Capitalism, we have to let go of what is destroyed and seek out what suits us. The important thing to remember here is that we as individuals are always more than what our system takes away from us. Even if our system took away those things that we used to define ourselves (censored them even( we would still know who we are.
(That is the one thing the system can never take away from us.