Funny, but sad.

newrival
newrival Posts: 2,017
edited April 2011 in The Clubhouse
http://gizmodo.com/#!5789097/dying-borders-tells-amazon-to-go-to-hell-in-most-passive-aggressive-way-possible

A very funny sign, but a harsh reality.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited April 2011
    Hahaha!
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    Wonder WTF happened to the rest of my money.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited April 2011
    LOL....that one made my day!
    "....not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited April 2011
    Great sign. Not sure why it's sad though?

    It's Borders' fault that they weren't able to keep up with the times and update their business model.
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    Yep, down with books!
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited April 2011
    ryanjoachim wrote: »
    Great sign. Not sure why it's sad though?

    It's Borders' fault that they weren't able to keep up with the times and update their business model.

    Precisely They didn't want to jump on the ebook bandwagon until it was too late & they were already in financial trouble.
    cokewithvanilla wrote: »
    Yep, down with books!

    The books are just fine. They are just being read in a different format. I read over 100 books last year on my ereader. I will probably read the sam amount this year, and I didn't have to clutter up my apt. with paperbacks!

    Adapt & change or die.
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  • EndersShadow
    EndersShadow Posts: 17,590
    edited April 2011
    I dunno, there is just something about the feel of paper in your hand and physically turning the pages. Yes, they take up space, but I dont have to worry about if they decide to delete them off their server my copy goes away.

    Personally a nice weathered & tattered Louis Lamour western with a cold Diet Mountain Dew outside on the patio chair is about as good as it gets.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2011
    I'm with Ender..in my line of work 'you have to own some books in the old format....paper'. But I also think that the small, independent book dealer: Those great spots in NYC, for example, started to 'disappear' in the 1980s with the gentrification of Manhattan. Dealers who'd been in business for decades if not longer were unable to pay the NEW rents demanded or move to the 'new' locations. That was a sad time for many of us who were Grad students in the city and used to be able to find almost 'anything' in a time before the internet was ubiquitous, by just getting on the subway or even walking for a while? Soon after, Barnes & Noble, and later Borders became Mega-bookstores but as described above, their stock didn't and really couldn't compete with the old guys. B&N even closed down one of their greatest resources on Broadway--the used textbook annex. Don't even want to remember that one.

    I guess, at this point, it's all just nostalgia. But e-readers don't do it for 'me'. And, as I've noted elsewhere, a lot of material that scholars use/need is NOT available in electronic form and may never be--not profitable!

    As for Borders, don't really have much of an opinion there. They and B&N sort of mopped up the floor after Independents went Belly up.

    Of course B&N became a huge online presence able to compete with Amazon...so I guess Borders missed that boat?
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  • cokewithvanilla
    cokewithvanilla Posts: 1,777
    edited April 2011
    EndersShadow wrote: »
    I dunno, there is just something about the feel of paper in your hand and physically turning the pages. Yes, they take up space, but I dont have to worry about if they decide to delete them off their server my copy goes away.

    Personally a nice weathered & tattered Louis Lamour western with a cold Diet Mountain Dew outside on the patio chair is about as good as it gets.

    That's really funny cause I am the exact opposite. I find it really hard to sit and read a book with it on the table, and equally difficult to try to hold the thing open in any given position. All my books are generally the audio variety (I have to be doing something while 'reading'... ADD and all that)... and my text books that I cannot get in that format, I either take pictures of all the pages and compile them into a pdf, or have my dad take them to work, cut the bindings and run them through a pdf coverter. I then read them on my laptop....
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,713
    edited April 2011
    Although Ebooks (in whatever form) are the wave of the future , there's still nothing like the feeling of Pulp between one's fingers, IMO.
    Interesting fact/factoid/tidbit/trivia/information in what you're reading ? Get the old ballpoint out and make your notes in the margins, underline to your hearts content, and it's all good.

    Interesting article in the Riverfront Times regarding the Indies fight to stay alive.
    http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2011-03-17/news/indie-bookstores-join-forces-left-bank-puddnhead-subterranean-main-street/#

    I shop the local Barnes and Noble.
    The "Clearance" section is my favorite :redface: ; $6.98 keeps my neurons engaged and my wallet from going completely flat.
    Also allows for some "risk" taking; "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" ? I'll be darned if I'm going out on a $29.95 limb on a whim; for $5.98, though, that's not too far to fall. :smile:

    Nice read, btw.:smile:
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited April 2011
    Next tech innovation...

    The Virtual Restroom...

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    More later,
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  • maximillian
    maximillian Posts: 2,144
    edited April 2011
    My wife loves her Nook. Many authors are finding that $1 or $2 per book becomes an impulse buy so they can easily make way more money at that price level than higher prices. I think prices on ebooks will surely be dropping. There are of course books that cost a lot more. Then there is free-book on Fridays which my wife loves. That's an easy "risk" to take.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited April 2011
    I like paper books. You can just get them cheaper at Amazon.
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • phipiper10
    phipiper10 Posts: 955
    edited April 2011
    Not afraid to profess my love for Amazon. Santa shops there!
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  • gdb
    gdb Posts: 6,012
    edited April 2011
    Vinyl survived, paper will too. It's a social shame because a lot of happy couples were made in the cafe's of Borders.:frown:
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