Comments on: Borders Books heading out? http://books.lohudblogs.com/2008/03/20/borders-books-heading-out/ About books, writers and, of course, readers Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:58:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: barbara nackman http://books.lohudblogs.com/2008/03/20/borders-books-heading-out/comment-page-1/#comment-441 barbara nackman Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:22:55 +0000 http://books.lohudblogs.com/2008/03/20/borders-books-heading-out/#comment-441 And what will happen to Border's Books in White Plains? It is such a neat spot and I love how open the store feels. And what will happen to Border’s Books in White Plains? It is such a neat spot and I love how open the store feels.

]]> By: Jonathan Salem Baskin http://books.lohudblogs.com/2008/03/20/borders-books-heading-out/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Jonathan Salem Baskin Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:47:05 +0000 http://books.lohudblogs.com/2008/03/20/borders-books-heading-out/#comment-440 Hi Barbara, I agree with you, and I think that the various aspects of geophysical reality when it comes to books -- tactile experience of covers, flipping pages, the smells, visual display, yadda yadda -- cannot be replaced by Internet retailing. So why hasn't Borders (or other book retailers) figured out how to exploit these un-copy-able attributes? Doing better e-commerce was never the key to succeeeding... Anyway, I've riffed a bit about what those possibilities could have been at DIM BULB, if you're interested: http://dimbulb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/borders-reprint.html Hi Barbara, I agree with you, and I think that the various aspects of geophysical reality when it comes to books—tactile experience of covers, flipping pages, the smells, visual display, yadda yadda—cannot be replaced by Internet retailing. So why hasn’t Borders (or other book retailers) figured out how to exploit these un-copy-able attributes? Doing better e-commerce was never the key to succeeeding…

Anyway, I’ve riffed a bit about what those possibilities could have been at DIM BULB, if you’re interested: http://dimbulb.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/borders-reprint.html

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