Borders Bookstore Bites the Dust

[Tero]

Is it in your garage? Watch out for the next flood.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Is it in your garage? Watch out for the next flood.

We haz uber power. The Hyperwar and WWII Resources sites are housed at UNC. As long as North Carolina is above water we'll have a home.

[Bella Fortuna]

Give me a used book store with books packed in every little nook and cranny any day,

Secondhand book shops have been heavenly to me since I was a teenager. Generally the first thing I do when going someplace new is see if there are any I can visit. If I didn't have to work, but wanted something to do to keep busy, I'd happily work in a secondhand shop, for books!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have two good ones about a mile apart here, and several more I haven't been to.

[amused]

I unloaded the last of my paper books on Half Price Books. While I waited for them to calculate their pitiful offer, I wandered the aisles that are sure to be gone soon. When they made their pitiful offer, I was tempted to ask them where they shelved the used ebooks...

[Svartalf]

Give me a used book store with books packed in every little nook and cranny any day,

Secondhand book shops have been heavenly to me since I was a teenager. Generally the first thing I do when going someplace new is see if there are any I can visit. If I didn't have to work, but wanted something to do to keep busy, I'd happily work in a secondhand shop, for books!

I've made some great finds in those... problem is that the stock is limited, so you don't know if you'll find what you really want (which is why I fell in love with Amazon back when I could make purchases over the net), and those places work even better when the owner knows you well and can make recommendations... remember the time a guy in Dublin that had been seeing me for 6 months suggested a Kane book by Karl E Wagner... I understood what gem he had dropped into my lap only too late to thank him (as I had to read it only after I came back to France, due to more pressing business taking precedence).

[Tero]

I had some idea to start a junk shop of some kind when I quit chemistry. But the current idea of not hauling junk around would just leave me antiques. I basically don't care about furniture and lamps.

[Ayaan]

It is sad as is the death of any bookstore. I know some people have no love for chains, but any place that people bought books from is a good place. Get a child interested in reading and usually you have a reader for life.

When I lived in Mississippi there was a Borders not far from my house and I spent quite a bit of time there. It was usually quite busy. There really weren't any good used bookstores nearby. The one independent bookstore was miles away and hard to get to.

[MrJonno]

Why advertise on TV if your audience is going to fast forward past your expensive advertisement?

Why bother making any quality TV if you can't sell advertising and can't sell individual items due to piracy. I think the future of quality entertainment in the digital era is very very bleak.

You already have the case of some really good sci fi being cancelled because its audience are more capable of piracy than non-sci fi people and watching the stuff illegally.

All I see is shite live reality shows which are pointless pirating dominating the environment.

In the past it was 50 channels with generally about 1 thing worth watching on now it will be 5000 with absolutely nothing

Depressed

[Tero]

OK, I have studied it:
http://teroreport.blogspot.com/2011/07/ ... eless.html

[Gallstones]

I'm building a library in the cloud at Amazon that will most likely be there indefinitely.

This is what I can't put my trust in. I just don't believe it will be there indefinitely. Amazon is just a company, and if it (or any of the other providers of online storage) goes out of business, the respective cloud evaporates.

I used to have a photo album online with a very popular (UK) photo hosting service. They had millions of images online - a couple of months ago they just stopped. No reason given other than "problems", and that they were "looking for ways to resume the service". Millions and millions of photos, hundreds of thousands of users, a superb resource that I used daily for archive information ... immediately and irreversably gone.

Data terrorism, beyond hacking, total elimination of huge volumes of necessary and irreplaceable data.
No need to leave the house or get dirty or create a purchase trail buying components, no need for a getaway plan. Clean, easy and impersonal.
Just an idea your post brought to mind.

[Gallstones]

Advertising/marketing is like a fungus. It will never be rid of.

[hadespussercats]

Advertising/marketing is like a fungus. It will never be rid of.

Yeah, they just use more product placements right in the entertainment itself.

I also hate the pop-up ads across the bottom of TV shows these days, but they're getting more and more common because of DVR and such.

[amused]

I'm building a library in the cloud at Amazon that will most likely be there indefinitely.

This is what I can't put my trust in. I just don't believe it will be there indefinitely. Amazon is just a company, and if it (or any of the other providers of online storage) goes out of business, the respective cloud evaporates.

I used to have a photo album online with a very popular (UK) photo hosting service. They had millions of images online - a couple of months ago they just stopped. No reason given other than "problems", and that they were "looking for ways to resume the service". Millions and millions of photos, hundreds of thousands of users, a superb resource that I used daily for archive information ... immediately and irreversably gone.

Data terrorism, beyond hacking, total elimination of huge volumes of necessary and irreplaceable data.
No need to leave the house or get dirty or create a purchase trail buying components, no need for a getaway plan. Clean, easy and impersonal.
Just an idea your post brought to mind.

But if we are at that level of fucked-upness, the status of my ebooks won't even be on the survival radar anyway.