Waldenbooks becoming Borders Express

singingbelle writes “I just found out from Waldenbooks being that I am a preferred reader that it will now become Borders Express. You can check out some news here.“

September 3, 2004 by Uncategorized 5

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  1. birdie says:
    September 3, 2004 at 12:28 am

    and one of these days…
    there will only be be one store in the US…ALLMART.
    We asked for it, we’ve got it.

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  2. AshtabulaGuy says:
    September 3, 2004 at 2:04 am

    Hmm…
    Seeing as how there is no Borders in town but just Waldenbooks at my tiny mall, this could be an interesting change…

    It could also mean we would lose a bookstore and wind up with having no chain bookstore at all in my entire county too!

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  3. birdie says:
    September 3, 2004 at 5:21 pm

    Re:and one of these days…
    Thank you for thinking my post was funny, I usually like to be considered funny if not smart. But actually, I was dead serious. That’s where we’re headed, towards consolidation into one (or three or four) big multi-national megacorps. Bye ma and pa, hello “the Company store.” About Waldenbooks, Borders is the parent company, so it’s another one of those ‘swallow your own young’ things.

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  4. GregS* says:
    September 3, 2004 at 6:21 pm

    Re:and one of these days…
    Not to be picking on you today but…

    An ‘Allmart’ still has to be stocked by thousands of different products, some probably designed or created by Mom and Pop operations. In essense an Allmart would be a physical version of the Internet, and while thats not a prefect scenario, its not a bad one.

    As for Borders and Waldens, I’ve heard a lot of talk this week about how the ‘new media’ is reinventing politics. That ‘new media’ is non-paper based. I’m not saying books are dead but I am saying that what these companies are doing is a legitimate act of self-preservation.

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  5. Bibliofuture says:
    September 3, 2004 at 7:17 pm

    Bookstore
    What do you want in a bookstore that Barnes and Nobles, Borders, etc… do not provide? I don’t think I have been in a independent bookstore that dealt in new books that I was ever really impressed with. They just sell the same stuff as Barnes and Nobles but at a higher price. The only bookstores that I find worthwhile are stores that are willing to also deal in used books. That is one thing that is so great about Powells. They do not discriminate against used books. They stock both new and used books and hire subject experts and they are thriving. This is America. Do something innovative or be consumed by the ALLMART blob.

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