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McAnally's (The Community Pub) => Author Craft => Topic started by: meg_evonne on July 20, 2011, 05:29:24 PM
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Where will I go to browse those books eye to spine? 40 minutes away in Des Moines? No way.
Tis a sad, sad day. Someone come in and buy out those leases and start up a new bookstore----please!?!?!?
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I am always sad to see any bookstore close, whether it is a little one or big. I am greatful that I have a B&N right in the town I work in.
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yeah the one near me also closed luckily there is a barns and noble close by as well. however i own the borders e-reader so if the whole company goes under I'm screwed
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yeah the one near me also closed luckily there is a barns and noble close by as well. however i own the borders e-reader so if the whole company goes under I'm screwed
Borders didn't have their own ereader. The readers will still work, and you can still get books elsewhere.
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I was sad to see them closing. I was in one of our local stores yesterday and all the employees looked shell shocked. Luckily I live in a large city so there are a couple of Barnes and Noble stores near by but I hate to see book stores close. Of course in todays job market, I hate to see any large employer go belly up. It's truly sad.
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There ares no real bookstores close to where I live. Even Borders is up in Atlantic City, about an hour's drive from Cape May. Closest B & N is about three hours away. So I'll miss Borders.
We have something called Atlantoc Books here, who specialize in selling remaindered books - admittedly, cut rate prices, but few new books as they come out. Mostly NYT best sellers (yeah, that means hopefully GS after it's been out a week or so.) me, I have eBook version on preorder anyway. What Atlantic gets in though is very hit or miss. It doesn't have the same friendly atmosphere the Borders in Mays Landing has, either.
And for those of you with B & N ... According to Katherine Raush's newest blog, B & N stores have been told by corporate HQ to eliminate a bunch of their shelf spacemfor books and replace it with toys, gift items, etc. So the number of books they can have on hand is going to decrease dramatically.... *sigh* d*****d bean counters. Most people go to book stores for books, not toys or gift items...
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that's something that has always bothered me about privately owned book stores. i went to school in a very small town and there were three small private book sellers. one was used books but you could find lots of cool stuff and the staff were really nice, the other two were not well stocked on their fantasy scifi and their staff didn't really seem to want to interact with costumers, borders staff were always friendly and did their best to help me even when i had odd requests.
Honestly i liked them a lot better than Barns and Noble and am very sad that they are a sinking ship.