What Went Wrong at Borders

Re:What Went Wrong at Borders by lhnn on Thursday January 13, 2011 @11:24AM (#2100290)

The Barnes and Noble in Clear Lake, TX (near NASA) had a 30'x8' wall of programming and sysadmin books, and 3x that when you take in general computing, math, and science. I loved it. "Corporate" had them rearrange the store a bit, and the selection is (or looks) a bit smaller now.

Borders in San Antonio has a large selection of said topics, and I'm impressed. The only thing about Borders that bugs me is the lack of sitting areas.

I wonder if their demise would actually be good for a lot of independent booksellers whose customers would avoid B&N.

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Re:What Went Wrong at Borders by golgo13 on Thursday January 13, 2011 @03:35PM (#2101248)

I live in Austin and if I want a tech book from borders, there is usually 0 inventory here. There is something about those San Antonio Borders, though. They seem to have all of the books in stock. Are they that much larger than the stores in Austin? Or is SA a growing tech hub?

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Re:What Went Wrong at Borders by lhnn on Thursday January 13, 2011 @09:05PM (#2102215)

There's only one SA borders that I know of; one got closed down within the past year. Huebner/I-10 is the open one.

I know several datacenters are in San Antonio. MSFT, Rackspace, etc. Also, the NW side has a medical center, a university, and several banks (USAA's HQ is a mile away from it).

In short, the NW side is an affluent area.

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