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Originally Posted by Fbone
If B&N closes, the only B&M retailing options I'd have would be grocery stores, Kmart and Target. They only have the NYT Bestsellers and some romances. And I don't live in a rural area.
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Those would be the only choices for most people.
(Already are, for me. There is no B&N near me and now that the local Borders are gone it's Amazon or nothing.)
My point isn't that I want B&N to go away.
(And I don't think they will. Not just yet.)
Rather, my disdain is for the people who created Amazon (and B&N before it) with *their* policies and are now hand-wringing about the mess they created for themselves. And they expect somebody else to save them?
Borders is gone?
Well, they could have worked with them on inventory instead of pushing them into outright liquidation.
Nobody picked up the Borders trade?
I remember there were *two* bidders but the publishers wouldn't help out.
And they bemoan Borders? *They* pushed them over the cliff!
B&N in trouble because dept stores and groceries carry the same bestsellers, but cheaper? And where do they *get* those books? Bootleggers?
If the Glass Tower publishers *really* wanted to help B&N, they could do it in an instant. They choose not to. Because it is cheaper to do nothing.
The world the big publishers face is the world *they* created.
They created the mess, they can live with it.
My sympathy is reserved for the B&N employees stuck in this mess.