/lit/ - Literature

>>11370805
Barnes and Nobel made me cringe too with the ad at the entrance.
>a thriller only a president can provide!

>>11370849
fuck those niggers, Borders should've lived on not them. Borders was comfy, B&N is by and for brainlets.
>tfw will never again be a kid walking around Borders listening to Norah jones on the store speaker while your parents buy a hot chocolate with whipped cream and chocolate for you and your sister

>>11370805
Neither of them wrote the book.

James Patterson will right anything if you pay him. Remember the TV show Castle about a mystery writer who helps the police solve crimes with his amazing crime writing ability? It starred Nathan Fillion as the writer. He wrote books published using Castle's name then Nathan Fillion went on a book signing tour.

>>11370864
Borders was run by idiots who thought ebooks was a fad. That being said I always liked Borders more and was sad when it died.

>>11370864
Border's leatherbound series were more tasteful and uniform compared to B&N's monstrosities

>>11370871
>thought ebooks was a fad
they're not? I have never once seen anyone in my life reading an ebook on an ebook reader, and I live in a major east coast city where you'd think that'd be common if it was anywhere else.

>>11370881
>reading an ebook on an ebook reader
Don't most people do that on their smartphones now?

>>11370867
That sounds like a really excellent way to make tons of money doing almost no work.

>>11370889
how would that not kill your eyes? I always thought the whole appeal of ebooks was the dim/imitation ink screen