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A country without Borders?
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 12:13
by Chairman Bux
Those damn dirty apes, what have they done?
The Borders bookshop chain in the UK is on the verge of going into administration.
The company has filed court documents stating its intention to appoint accountancy firm BDO as administrator.
Borders, which has 45 stores in the UK, has suffered from increased competition from online retailers, such as Amazon, as well as supermarkets.
Its website has stopped taking orders for new books while it "is in discussion with potential buyers".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8380268.stm
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 12:36
by markfiend
Turnabout is fair play; if the big chains (Waterstones, Dillons, Borders) hadn't f*cked over the rest of the trade when they reneged on the Net Book Agreement, I might have more sympathy.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 13:19
by Izzy HaveMercy
Same here in Belgium. ExtraZone and Bilbo, two of the more interesting stores left to find some cd's to my liking, are on the verge of closing up shop....
IZ.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 13:30
by abridged
We have one bookshop, an Easons that only does the popular stuff, so as much as I'd like to support local enterprise the internet is cheaper and faster when ordering. We had one independent store for quite a while but it was very expensive and quite unfriendly which isn't the way to go about things I guess. Maybe niche retailing is the way to go, particularly for record shops.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 14:11
by weebleswobble
What's a book?
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 14:20
by markfiend
weebleswobble wrote:What's a book?
It's like the Internet but made out of a dead tree.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 14:21
by Quiff Boy
markfiend wrote:weebleswobble wrote:What's a book?
It's like the Internet but made out of a dead tree.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 14:27
by weebleswobble
markfiend wrote:weebleswobble wrote:What's a book?
It's like the Internet but made out of a dead tree.
It'll never catch on.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 16:58
by spot778
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 17:47
by robertzombie
That's a shame
Always enjoyed their buy one get one half price deals.
Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 18:53
by lazarus corporation
The staff at the Starbucks in the Borders bookstore [in Brighton] have been told that the store is shutting down in four weeks.
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Posted: 26 Nov 2009, 20:48
by Nadia81
I don't know how it is in the U.K. but big chain bookstores never have the books I want in any subject.The last straw for me was when I spent 20 minutes in Borders looking for Dante's Divine Comedy.I searched the Classic section-no. I searched Literature-nope.They had The Divine Comedy in the World History section.
Posted: 27 Nov 2009, 11:54
by timsinister
I found Borders' magazine outlet to be very wide-ranging and impressive, and their partnership with GAME guaranteed to divorce me from my money!
I might be more accepting of their demise if I knew of a good independant bookshop in Leeds...?