Comments on: Column: Saying Goodbye to Borders http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/08/12/column-saying-goodbye-to-borders/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-saying-goodbye-to-borders it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: John http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/08/12/column-saying-goodbye-to-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-70816 John Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:07:47 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=69801#comment-70816 I’m going to miss being able to browse Borders, but I find it interesting that even in their going-out-of-business sale, they can’t compete with online companies for price.

]]> By: Vivienne Armentrout http://annarborchronicle.com/2011/08/12/column-saying-goodbye-to-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-70803 Vivienne Armentrout Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:53:55 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=69801#comment-70803 This is one of the nicest meditations on what Borders has meant to us that I’ve seen.

One point I haven’t seen remarked upon is that Borders greatly expanded the discounting concept for books (I believe that Books-a-Million or a similar chain launched it). At one time, every hardback at Borders was automatically 10% below list, and best-sellers often 30% below list. This put a great stress on independent booksellers. Amazon then took that model and drove everyone into the ground with it. So one might say that the seeds of Borders’ destruction were in its early success from this ploy.

But I’ll miss it.

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