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Borders is Closing
Jul. 19th, 2011 08:37 am This makes me so, so sad.
Borders was a big part of my childhood, because my mom had a job there for a while, doing event planning. It was awesome. For the release of the 4th Harry Potter Book she did one of those big HP events, one of the first ones, and dressed up as the Fat Lady in the Portrait by putting on a red velvet dress and wearing a picture frame on a harness. It was so cool to me. I got discounted books and spent so much time hanging out there.
I can't think of a time when I wasn't going to Borders. Not every weekend, and sometimes not every month, but enough that most of my books come from there. That and amazon.com. I feel guilty now, every time I went to amazon and bought a used book, I was killing one of my favorite places. I just never thought it could just go away.
You can read about it HERE but I'm gonna cover some of the more annoying bits of the article.
Borders, which filed for Chapter 11 in February, also never caught up to its rivals' e-reader sales, namely Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook.
Funny, because when I saw that table inside my Borders of eReaders I felt disgusted. I HATE eReaders and I'm not the only one. Seeing that table made me feel betrayed and annoyed. You've got this sea of wonderful books and employees to tell you all about them, and you waste space on stupid little gadgets you're going to have to re-train your employees to use and sell? *headdesk* Oh, and my favorite part was when you dismantled the lovely YA den that was situated right next to the Graphic Novel/Gaming section and the Manga section and shoved all the graphic novels behind the romance section and made me feel ashamed to go walk across the store to check out the Fables books.
Plus, as Laura Bartell, a bankruptcy law professor at Wayne State University, told the Detroit Free Press, "The physical bookstore has become a thing of the past."
Laura Bartell, you'd better hope we never meet in person, because while I'm sure you're a very nice person, I now want nothing more than to punch you in the face. I be you're the kind of person who says that physical books are going to become obsolete too, because who'd want to hold a lovely book in their hands when they could strain their eyes at a screen for hours on a fiddly gadget that could break or glitch? People like that bring out the very worst in me.
*cries* NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!! I know I should have spent more money, Borders, but you're far away and I don't have a lot of money and I'm a very busy, poor geek! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
Borders was a big part of my childhood, because my mom had a job there for a while, doing event planning. It was awesome. For the release of the 4th Harry Potter Book she did one of those big HP events, one of the first ones, and dressed up as the Fat Lady in the Portrait by putting on a red velvet dress and wearing a picture frame on a harness. It was so cool to me. I got discounted books and spent so much time hanging out there.
I can't think of a time when I wasn't going to Borders. Not every weekend, and sometimes not every month, but enough that most of my books come from there. That and amazon.com. I feel guilty now, every time I went to amazon and bought a used book, I was killing one of my favorite places. I just never thought it could just go away.
You can read about it HERE but I'm gonna cover some of the more annoying bits of the article.
Borders, which filed for Chapter 11 in February, also never caught up to its rivals' e-reader sales, namely Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook.
Funny, because when I saw that table inside my Borders of eReaders I felt disgusted. I HATE eReaders and I'm not the only one. Seeing that table made me feel betrayed and annoyed. You've got this sea of wonderful books and employees to tell you all about them, and you waste space on stupid little gadgets you're going to have to re-train your employees to use and sell? *headdesk* Oh, and my favorite part was when you dismantled the lovely YA den that was situated right next to the Graphic Novel/Gaming section and the Manga section and shoved all the graphic novels behind the romance section and made me feel ashamed to go walk across the store to check out the Fables books.
Plus, as Laura Bartell, a bankruptcy law professor at Wayne State University, told the Detroit Free Press, "The physical bookstore has become a thing of the past."
Laura Bartell, you'd better hope we never meet in person, because while I'm sure you're a very nice person, I now want nothing more than to punch you in the face. I be you're the kind of person who says that physical books are going to become obsolete too, because who'd want to hold a lovely book in their hands when they could strain their eyes at a screen for hours on a fiddly gadget that could break or glitch? People like that bring out the very worst in me.
*cries* NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!!! I know I should have spent more money, Borders, but you're far away and I don't have a lot of money and I'm a very busy, poor geek! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
