Tuesday, July 19, 2011

SADS. Farewell Borders. SB will miss you.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2016289/Borders-goes-business-40-years-leaving-11-000-jobs.html

Borders always had such an eclectic mix of books and music. What a damn shame.

8 comments:

Akannie said...

Damn. Why can't it be something like Sonic, if there's a space to fill?

Syd said...

That is sad. Did B and N do them in? Or was it Amazon?

Big Mark 243 said...

Exactly. Borders used to have not only the best music, but great locations... said to see them go...

Ms. Moon said...

I can't even fucking believe it. But here's the irony- all those little neighborhood bookstores put out of business by the Big Ones. Now- all gone. Jesus.

Sarcastic Bastard said...

Syd,
I heard it was both Amazon and B & N.

Lori said...

That is the one thing that I love so very much about my little town. I can walk on foot to two neighborhood bookstores. They are both family owned. In the days of B & N, Amazon etc..it's a beautiful thing. I wish more people would make a point of patronizing their local businesses. Maybe other of our favorite places won't go the way of Borders...xoxo

Parabolic Muse said...

never cared for borders. right wingers. but besides that, they didn't manage well.

the main problem with this of course is that, if no one is selling books but Amazon, will there be any reason to print books?

I guess I'm an even bigger dinosaur, now!

Christina @ Fashion's Most Wanted said...

Our local Borders went last year and is now an H&M. I buy pretty much everything from Amazon now. Unfortunately none of the bookshops can compete with their service or prices. I miss Borders! They did good coffee too xx