My Borders is Closing.

[asu1117]

That's depressing, I love bookstores. Though as far as corporate book sellers go I prefer Barnes & Noble to Borders. There's a great little bookstores in downtown Asheville owned by a lesbian couple that I adore.

Chapel Hill is losing its Borders as well. We lost our WaldenBooks a few years ago, and a few years before that, we lost our next-to-last independent bookstore. Now all we have left is the independent bookstore inside the university bookstore, two used textbook stores, and two used book stores. It truly baffles me that a college town can function with so few bookstores.

Isn't there a Barnes & Noble like five miles down the road in Durham though? I'd imagine that has something to do with it.

 

[wonderwort]

Sad sign of the times.

 

[resonance]

I'll miss Borders, if not for the books then the specialty gifts. One of the few stores I visited every time I visited the shopping center.

At least we'll have a great liquidation sale out of it.

 

[LilBit]

Isn't there a Barnes & Noble like five miles down the road in Durham though? I'd imagine that has something to do with it.

There is, but it's in the mall. The Borders was somewhat more accessible for people in Chapel Hill, but it also wasn't nearly as nice as the B&N.

At least our independent bookstores are still around...

 

[looseliam]

I think this may be a good thing.

Perhaps then the small, eclectic ma-and-pa book stores will return.

 

[zoltanspawn]

I think this may be a good thing.

Perhaps then the small, eclectic ma-and-pa book stores will return.

I hope so. But, that means we must support them instead of only using our Kindles.

 

[freefall]

Well, I understand your feeling, Joshua, about bookstores. The coziest bookstore in my place is Kinokunita, which is really like a library on sale. It feels like second home there.

On the other hand, I doubt bookstores are closing in developing countries, at least in the next twenty years; too many people go to bookstores for leisure, though most of them are just reading at place and not buying anything ever.

 

[wonderwort]

sad..................