Originally Posted By: IvyLeague
Originally Posted By: pizzaboy
Amazing how BN put 90 percent of long-time, family-owned bookstores out of business virtually overnight back in the '90s, and now they're slowly but surely getting torched by Internet sales and the almighty ebook. Some would call that justice.

I do enjoy Barnes and Noble because you can sit there for an hour or two with a cup of coffee and a real book (I rarely read a book on my tablet unless it's absolutely necessary). But they're dropping like flies. The Borders chain has been done for a few years now. It's only a matter of time for BN. What comes around goes around.


Saw the same thing with the mom and pop video shops, Blockbuster, and now Netflix, Redbox, etc.

Yup, good analogy.


"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.