Man what a shock. I mean, who knew that if you equipped your book store with climate control, wall to wall carpeting, plush chairs, coffee shop, free wi-fi and unsealed books that it would be a magnet for broke hipsters and unemployed yuppies? I bet nobody saw that coming. To boot you could sign up for 20% off coupons and such. What a genius plan to lose money. Probably the best one yet.
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Borders Business Model
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Eric Christian
offlineMemberPosted 8 months ago # -
dodd
offlineTACOS!Well, there's always barnes & noble. Unsealed overpriced books, overpriced wifi and starbucks coffee.
That's why I prefer half-price books. No wifi, no catalog system so they never know how many books are in-stock and you have to guess which aisle or genre your book is because like I said they don't have a cataloguing system. They have their own cafe which is not half-bad but the same books you'd find at borders and B&N are cheap as fuck there.
I remember buying a huge-ass encyclopedia-like book on the Gulags for 5 bucks. On the Internet it sells for no less than 30 bucks.
Oh the 2nd hand industrial CDs are even cheaper.
Posted 8 months ago # -
djtekslave
offlineMemberIn Canada giant book retailer Chapters charges more if you buy in store than Online.
Also any price on WiFi is overpriced. Charging for WiFi should be criminal.
Posted 8 months ago # -
soillodge
offlineTech ModeratorI go to this place called The Public Library. They have wi-fi. They have a cheap coffee machine and it's free. They have a catalog system that tracks the books and I can even reserve titles from other libraries and they will send me an email when it is available. Pretty nice :D
When I do find a good book. I buy it from Amazon.
`michael
Posted 8 months ago # -
Apexxx
offlineSIDE-LINE MODERATORBorders in store was ALWAYS higher priced than online. Ive seen more than $15 in price differences between the two on new release Tuesdays.
Posted 8 months ago # -
dodd
offlineTACOS!Ok, Soillodge officially wins this thread.
Posted 8 months ago # -
EBMHaircut
offlineMemberI like Half Price books too. They have cheap comic books and past issues of magazines. I liked Borders better than B&N but they did always seem overpriced. There's another chain called Books A Million but there isn't one near me so i haven't been able to check it out. The library has it's place but they don't always have too much new stuff and i hate being on a waiting list just to read a damn book. I don't read that much anyways so if i'm looking for a book in particular i'm probably going to want to buy it and take my time with it. I'm not good at returning them anyways.
Posted 8 months ago # -
half has a ton of books for $0.75
you basically pay the shipping.
http://books.half.ebay.com/i'd go to Borders or Barnes & Noble to buy a gift.
Posted 8 months ago # -
soillodge
offlineTech ModeratorI'm kinda suprised. Here in NY our libraries have magazines, DVD's, CD's, and video games. I borrowed that last Final Fantasy before I ended up buying it. I really read a lot so there is always something to occupy me while I wait for another title to come in. I think the last time I went to a real retail book store was to buy House of Leaves. Cost an arm and a leg but at that time it was very difficult to find. Now these public libraries are good at keeping new titles in and I have not had any problems. Plus the old ladies are all really nice. Not like the ass-bags that run the register at those retail places. Always trying to get me to sign into some program or buy more books so I can qualify for dumb shit. To be honest I do not like brick and mortar shops at all. I would rather just wait for something to ship right to me.
`michael
Posted 8 months ago # -
The Black Oil
offlineMemberThis neglects to mention Borders desperate strategy to survive in the final months which entailed booking shitty singer-songwriters to infest the cafe area and drive out the only loyal people who actually came there AND STILL BOUGHT STUFF.
They also took way too long to get out of physical music sales.
Still, I'll admit to kind of missing the one in my area. It was a good place to go and read something once in a while. But you can't sustain yourself on iced mochas when your business model is based on moving books at prices that were inferior to almost everywhere else.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Siglo
offlineMemberFor a store that is/was struggling, they had an interesting vinyl collection at the one in Ramsey, NJ. And Yes it was waaaaaayyyyy overpriced.
Posted 8 months ago # -
heretic909
offlineMemberThat episode of King of the Hill where you buy a book from Peggy and get a free gun from Dale. Now that was a business model.
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