Yay Failing Book Stores?

[Scribble]

SO I was in the mall the other day and I saw that Borders seems to be closing shop on the "Borders Express" stores... Everything left is crazy discounted.

They had a copy of MM2 at 70% off so I snagged it. It wasn't really on my radar to buy it before that, but at 70% off...

So if you live near a borders express you might find something.

 

[Tale]

Yeah, they're closing like half the Waldenbooks. If I knew of one near me I'd go check it out, but I don't think I have any.

 

[crazy_cat]

SO I was in the mall the other day and I saw that Borders seems to be closing shop on the "Borders Express" stores...

Borders UK went into receivership and all of their stores across the whole of teh UK closed right before Christmas.

Lots of crazy discounts (they even sold off the fixtures and fittings!) but lots of people lost their jobs as well.

 

[coyote6]

The local B. Dalton just closed; they never got below 50% off, though. I still bought a bunch of books. (FWIW, that was the last bookstore in the city of 150,000 I live in.)

I was in the not-quite-local Borders Express on Friday, and they didn't have any "store closing" signs up, so I guess they're okay. If they did close, that would leave exactly one bookstore (AFAIK) within 25 miles -- a regular Borders. With an ever-shrinking fantasy & SF section, and all of Borders ongoing problems -- not terribly reassuring.

 

[Dice4Hire]

Being happy bookstores are closing just so you can get a great discount strikes me as rather self-centered.

 

[Tale]

Being happy bookstores are closing just so you can get a great discount strikes me as rather self-centered.

I'm okay with him being self-centered.

 

[JiffyPopTart]

Sweet deal!

I was very stoked when I found Arcane Powers at Half-Price Books a few weeks ago.

DS

 

[Krensky]

I blame the schools.

 

[El Mahdi]

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[Blackbrrd]

The local B. Dalton just closed; they never got below 50% off, though. I still bought a bunch of books. (FWIW, that was the last bookstore in the city of 150,000 I live in.)

I was in the not-quite-local Borders Express on Friday, and they didn't have any "store closing" signs up, so I guess they're okay. If they did close, that would leave exactly one bookstore (AFAIK) within 25 miles -- a regular Borders. With an ever-shrinking fantasy & SF section, and all of Borders ongoing problems -- not terribly reassuring.

OMG

I live in a town with 25.000 people and we have like 2-3 book stores. None of them are fantasy/sci-fi bookstores or anything but...

Regarding fantasy/sci-fi I think there are like 2-3 of them in the whole of Norway. Norway has about 5 million people...