[lbo-talk] Fahrenheit 451 :Analysts: Borders may have trouble surviving bankruptcy

Mark Bennett bennett.mab at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 14:12:32 PST 2011


I think Borders can survive. It needs to dump the music and video sections of their stores - that's just wasted space with inventory that no one is going to buy. Those battles are lost. They should drop the coffee bars as well. And they had too many locations. In San Diego County there are - were - about six full-size Borders' locations and only one of them was worth a damn - but for a long time it was an excellent bookstore, with a huge selection of out-of-the-way and interesting titles, and it was packed. Borders needs to market itself as an alternative to B&N, which sucks. But the future for print media does look grim.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Bill White <bill.white at griggsinst.com>wrote:


> On 2011-02-17, at 12:40 , Wojtek S wrote:
> [WS:] But you can still buy books online where it is much easier to find
> > obscure titles than at Borders.
> >
> > What concerns me more is not the disappearance of brick and mortar
> > bookstores - even though I loved them for their ambiance - but the
> > disappearance of print media.
>
> I'm mostly a lurker on this list, but I worry about this as well, and have
> been for some time. I read this short article:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
>
> in 1997 when it was first published in the Communications of the ACM (a
> somewhat obscure journal for academic computer scientists). I thought it
> was overblown then, but I'm changing my mind. The author, Richard
> Stallman,
> is a genius and a visionary, but at the same time a certifiable lunatic.
> He's certainly incorrect about scientific literature, which is becoming
> freely available more and more often with arxiv.org and plos.org.
>
>
>
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