Borders' troubles cast shadow over independent booksellers

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• snipes posted at 10:07 am on Wed, Jan 12, 2011.

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  The loss of a bookstore is never a good thing.

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• DrJCA1 posted at 8:41 pm on Wed, Jan 12, 2011.

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  Many more brick and mortar stores will close over the next decade because people have no loyalty to the small independants that have served their communities for many years. People rush to the internet for everything to save a dollar or two, not realizing that customer service is non-existant on the internet. All local stores owned by real people will usually go out of their way to serve you, but the public doesn't care. Go ahead and destroy all the small shops, you fools. What you are doing with Amazon and the like is taking away from your children and grandchildren the joys and pleasure of actually spending a day "window-shopping" at various actual stores, depriving them of the fun it is. I don't own a store but I do go out of my way to support the mom & pop stores in my neighborhood.

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• TruthSeeker posted at 11:11 am on Thu, Jan 13, 2011.

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  I am an avid reader. I will never buy one of those electronic readers. I really enjoy reading page turners. I use them as a break from my computer. Besides, if you buy an electronic reader, you still have to pay a pretty steep price to buy the digital books. It's not like the digital books are free. The only kind of shopping I enjoy is perusing a book store. So many treasures there.

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