Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Borders bankruptcy
From: pjleeson at mchsi.com (Philip Leeson)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:10:57 -0600
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The mother of the manager of the local Borders store told me 2 years ago 
that if you went to the store here and they didn't have your book in stock 
they ordered it from ... Amazon.

True story
Get an ipad and get over it.
;-)

phil

On Feb 16, 2011, at 11:17 AM, J. Newell wrote:

> I think the issue is not so much that paper books are going away (not 
> yet?), but that the brick & mortar distribution channel is in danger of 
> going away. We will be reduced to buying through e-tailers if that 
> happens. One thing I know, speaking for myself - I will wind up buying 
> fewer books. The percentage of book purchases I make that are attributable 
> to picking up a display copy in the local Borders store is very high. 
> YMMV, however. 
> 
> John Newell 
> 
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