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1949629 No.1949629 [Reply] [Original]

With Borders closing, won't that create a huge hole in the physical books market? Is this the approaching death of physical books happening much sooner than we'd expected?

>> No.1949631

No, you're fucking stupid.
2/10 for making me reply.

>> No.1949633

Amazon.

>> No.1949635

>>1949631
Could you tell me why I'm fucking stupid? You can be a dick about it, if you want, but I'd like illumination when possible.

>> No.1949642

>>1949635
I refer you to this post
>>1949633

>> No.1949645

>>1949635
What does illumination offer to the idiot? If you can't figure it out yourself, what good will come of simply telling you?

>> No.1949647

>>1949642
That's a good point, but it's still electronic in one of it's aspects. I can't help but feel with there being only one major chain resource for books, that physical books have lost a huge support.

>> No.1949649

>>1949645
Alright, so we should leave babies up to think for themselves and abolish school systems.

>> No.1949655

>>1949629

The end of one shitty and over-priced book store does not signal the end of literature. The era of the ebook is not yet coming, mainly because they won't stop crashing.

>> No.1949659

Borders was a shit bookstore. So no.

>> No.1949677

Barnes & Noble > Borders

It was always like that. Borders fucked up too much, so it went down. B&N is fighting a lot harder.

>> No.1949705

>>1949677
Interesting. How is it Borders fucked up, and what is it B&N are doing to keep alive?

>> No.1949741
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1949741

>MFW the Borders five minutes from my house is closing
FUCK.

>> No.1949773

>>1949633
this

there will never be a death of physical books

it's only the old models of business that are dying. buying in enormous volume and marking up the retail isn't feasible anymore. if e-readers were really the downfall of bookstores, borders and B&N wouldn't be selling them.