Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Borders bankruptcy
News item:
Independent booksellers are feeling the same pressure as Borders, and many are closing.
Though in general I vastly prefer to have smaller businesses survive, I'll make an exception in this case. Independent booksellers deserve to fail because they refused to respect and serve their own customers.
I've always been a voracious reader and a steady buyer of old books. When Amazon and Alibris came along, I breathed a huge sigh of relief, instantly abandoned 'live' bookstores, and have bought more books online than I ever bought from the 'real' stores.
Nearly all independent bookstores are run by beady-eyed Stalinist bullbitches who chase males out of the store and refuse to stock books not approved by The Party. Their failure is purely their own damn fault. They could have had twice as many customers if they hadn't shut out half the population. ¶ 6:56 PM
Independent booksellers are feeling the same pressure as Borders, and many are closing.
Though in general I vastly prefer to have smaller businesses survive, I'll make an exception in this case. Independent booksellers deserve to fail because they refused to respect and serve their own customers.
I've always been a voracious reader and a steady buyer of old books. When Amazon and Alibris came along, I breathed a huge sigh of relief, instantly abandoned 'live' bookstores, and have bought more books online than I ever bought from the 'real' stores.
Nearly all independent bookstores are run by beady-eyed Stalinist bullbitches who chase males out of the store and refuse to stock books not approved by The Party. Their failure is purely their own damn fault. They could have had twice as many customers if they hadn't shut out half the population. ¶ 6:56 PM
