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Originally Posted by petermillard
Maybe, though in the topsy-turvy world of corporate business it wouldn't surprise me if Borders were paying Starbucks to have the coffee shop in their store, instead of say, the local Books Etc...
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You may be right, who knows.
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I've only ever visited one Borders, and it was plenty busy with people hanging out and browsing - no queues at the till, though <shrug>
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Ironically, since I've owned an ereader for about 6 months now, I haven't bought a single book from a bricks and mortar bookstore. So even if Borders were still around, I probably wouldn't have used them since about August last year.
Previous to that I would have spent a few £100s at bookstores a year.
On top of that what with free Gutenberg books and cheap/free options on Smashwords and a few other places, I don't tend to buy ebooks from the more popular big name authors.
I now tend to read books by lesser known authors which are free or really cheap. So I'm spending less on books now.
I don't bother with Amazon either, as it's specific to the Kindle and I can't be bothered stripping DRM and converting to epub.