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Subject: [Leica] Borders bankruptcy
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:24:45 +0100
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While back in the US over Christmas I ran across "The Whites of their
Eyes" by Jill Lepore. I hadn't heard of it before, just saw it on the
shelf at Borders. I like bookstores.

The coffee wasn't much to write home about, no.

Daniel

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Chris Williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
> The last book I bought at Borders was Osterloh's Leica M book and it was in
> the half off section!
>
> I always found Borders a bit confusing personally and never seemed to carry
> allot of the inventory B&N does. Borders screwed up here by putting their
> "Seattle's Best" coffee shop in the store. Silly non local folks, everyone
> here goes to CC's and the protests began immediately.
>
>
>
>
> Chris Williams
> www.zoeicaimages.net
> www.rebirthworkshops.com
> 504-231-6261
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:32 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote:
>
>> It's not only the small independent book stores that are closing. Borders,
>> the giant book retailer, just filed for bankruptcy and announced that they
>> will close 200 stores. For those Luggers unfamiliar with the U.S.
>> publishing
>> market, Borders is second only to Barnes and Noble as a retail book
>> outlet.
>> The stores are as big as supermarkets. Blame it all on TV, Amazon, the
>> iPad,
>> the Kindle, the Nook and the general loss of reading interest by the
>> information consuming public.
>>
>>
>> Today I heard an interview with one of the mavens of the digital age who
>> proclaimed that, within a few years, print on paper would disappear as a
>> form of communication and information transmission. This would be a real
>> loss for old timers like me. I seem to be one of the few fully computer
>> literate octogenarians in my community and even I am intimidated by the
>> complexity of current technology. My wife finds the pushbutton telephone a
>> challenge and she is not alone. She has never learned the intricacies of
>> the
>> TV remote control. But she enjoys reading and viewing images on printed
>> pages. And buys dozens of books a year. If books become obsolete what will
>> we do with all the shelf space?
>>
>>
>> Larry Z
>>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Borders bankruptcy)
Message from zoeica at mac.com (Chris Williams) ([Leica] Borders bankruptcy)