Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era

Re:Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era by DanielBMarkham on Friday December 31, 2010 @06:07PM (#2056728)

I was just telling my wife this morning that the book business has changed radically -- there's been a seismic shift in the last year.

I don't see how the brick-and-mortar guys are going to do it. Even if you charged more and offered a high-touch experience, folks will just come in, browse the books, then scan them on their iPhone and buy them on the net.

Ebooks throws an even bigger monkey wrench into the works.

Major changes are coming.

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Re:Borders stalls book payments, doubts survival in e-book era by oiuytyuioiuy on Friday December 31, 2010 @09:11PM (#2057056)

Some bricks and mortar stores are doing fine, the local shops that stock local books and local authors and sell used books are doing great. Amazon gives them a global market for their used stock.

The chains that campaigned against net price agreements and talked about business and not being sentimental are no complaining about ebooks, Amazon and supermarkets - well tough

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