The Borders chain has been up for sale since March, due to heavy losses to Amazon.com. Hasn’t been approved yet, but could be the largest book chain yet! Do you think this will be good for book publishing? good for book culture?
The Borders chain has been up for sale since March, due to heavy losses to Amazon.com. Hasn’t been approved yet, but could be the largest book chain yet! Do you think this will be good for book publishing? good for book culture?
May 20, 2008 at 8:02 pm |
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May 25, 2008 at 11:38 pm |
I think the larger the corporation the worse it could be for book culture. Should we really be selling books like groceries? Huge bookstores are too overwhelming. As far as the chain bookstores go, I really like Borders. The thing that I like about it is that it isn’t humongous and it has interesting extra things that you don’t find at places like Barnes and Noble. This is just another example of a huge corporation taking over the smaller stores in order to create an even bigger monopoly with a lesser product. It is part of the reason I don’t shop at places like Walmart.
May 26, 2008 at 7:54 pm |
I agree – the larger the corporation, the worse the outlook. Personally, I love going into a neighborhood bookstore where the owner is there and you can talk to them about books they are featuring. I, too, like Borders better than Barnes and Noble – it seems more like a neighborhood bookstore. With Barnes and Noble buying them, there will just be one giant place that dictates the books featured and controls what we have access to. Thank goodness there will still be Amazon.com!
May 28, 2008 at 5:13 am |
I believe that a larger corporation is in the wrong here. Mostly because it will in deed take out the smaller book stores around America and possibly around the world. All that this merge will be doing is almost nearly causing a monopoly with both of these stores already carrying a bigger and more broad selection of books, having these two companies merge would be ludicrous. For the book culture I think that this will also hurt. Libraries around the United States could be in jeopardy with having more of these bookstores that offer the same deals around. As said above it will hurt the smaller book stores because their business will only because with the less amount of competition that would be around. Also with a merger like this there will be more stores that will be built because companies will always want to keep expanding as long as it will help them.