It's a 30 to 40 minute drive for me to get to a real bookstore and it was pretty much that way before Borders closed. If I had been any sort of regular customer of theirs I suppose I would now just go across the street to the Barnes and Noble that sits right there.
I was reading something recently that was talking about how up to 50% of Barnes and Noble retail space will be dedicated to items other than books (cafe, music, toys etc). I wonder, at what point does it no longer become a bookstore and is just a store that has some books?
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