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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yes. Those larger chain-stores. Like Borders, Barnes & Noble, and B. Dalton, and Walden Books? The ones that ran most Mom & Pop book-stores out of business (before Amazon entered the picture) and had everyone up in arms, saying "they needed to be stopped?" Those the ones you're feel sorry for and are missing? 
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Rofl! Point taken. Our chains weren't those, though. We didn't have B&N here, nor Dalton, or Walden. We had Angus and Robertson (which began as a Mum and Dad thing) and Borders which came from somewhere and swallowed up A&R, and Collins' which are still going but as a much smaller concern. Our population is a mere fraction of the rest of the world, we dont have enough to sustain many bookstores and certainly not many chains. But, the existence of online purchasing began tolling the bells for the few we had, and because they were too slow to get on board (and the prices, when they did, were outrageous) they lost out.
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