Last month I ducked into a Borders books and music store in midtown Manhattan.
In a recent editorial, Ray Kurzweil, futurist and Singularity Chancellor, compared the current university model to the bookstore model, suggesting that universities will be undermined by online the way that digital books undermined Borders.
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We have Netflix for movies, killing Blockbuster, and Kindle for books, killing Borders.
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But even later when my magazine reading went on line, for years in DC my go-to time-killer was to spend some time in a Borders flipping through graphic novels or books.
Meanwhile shares of peers such as Borders Group fell 6.7%, Books-A-Million 2.4% and Amazon.com 2.5%.
Borders, an American company, has bought up Books etc. and opened new mega-stores in Leeds, Glasgow, Brighton and London.
Could Borders have profited by creating smaller retail filled with books that book lovers love, and leave the Kindle to business books and best-selling page turners?
On September 15th Argentina blocked imports of books, and over 1m piled up at the borders.
Some people have told me that the reason Borders went bankrupt is because of the popularity of e-books.
At the same time, there are fewer bookstores in which to sell physical books, highlighted by the liquidation last year of Borders Group Inc.
In these books, the images transform the painted page, with ever more inventive borders and miniatures crowding out the almost redundant words and showing the reader a vision of the Bible.
Borders tends to try to capitalize on timing of current events for its self-publishing projects, such as music books tied to the Grammy Awards.
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