December 26th, 2011 at 8:40PM

I think I hope so

thisishangingrockcomics:

I wonder if the decline of big box bookstores like Borders and Barnes & Noble will mean a resurgence in more classical “mom and pop” bookstores or if the market will be dominated by Amazon and tablets.

  1. fantastically-improbable reblogged this from thisishangingrockcomics and added:
    Actually, B&N isn’t declining. B&N is doing just fine financially,...are getting shut down...
  2. wordsthatyoucantsay reblogged this from thisishangingrockcomics and added:
    wonder, too. Tablets...e-books don’t feel...same as real...
  3. valley0fdolls reblogged this from thisishangingrockcomics and added:
    exact same thing. i really enjoy grabbing coffee...bookstore. exploring my options,...
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  7. sayyoureindependent reblogged this from thisishangingrockcomics and added:
    (its been making me go to...independent booksellers more), but
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  9. toridori69 said: the latter
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  11. blergityblerg said: um definitely the latter amazon and e-readers are why borders went down in the first place. but the barnes & noble model is actually working well, they’ll be alright in the long run i think
  12. penile-denial said: I’m hoping for the former.
  13. bellabelleza said: I hope to god that it is the former. But then again, it is nice to know that the big shops have any book you’re looking for, and have a warehouse of books if they don’t carry it in the store.
  14. hung-herself said: probably the latter. which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, depending on how you look at it.
  15. renaencns said: Bookstores are failing and getting closed because of those damn e-readers. Have you heard about how amazon plans to burn their books and buy out public libraries so that they could shut them down?
  16. winterpasses said: i’ve heard that borders bought out a lot of those bookstores, but who knows. i hope so.
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  18. ihearttaco said: Oh god, I hope not. The world needs more mom and pop everything.
  19. feminal-romantics said: kind of like meg ryan’s “you’ve got mail” book stores?
  20. atoothoutofline said: I saw something about how a lot of “mom and pop” bookstores are closing, I’m guessing because of the rise of e-readers
  21. richwhitelesbian said: both at the same time in different sectors of the book market
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