Iconic photo of the times - re: Borders closing

[housewolf]

Reddit user Jessers25 took the photo embedded above at a Borders going out of business sale. In the photo, a Thomas Jefferson quote sat on a bare wall with a pile of dismantled bookshelves: “I cannot live without books.”

The photo has spawned hundreds of comments and a raging debate about the future of bookstores.

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/heartbreaking-borders-photograph_b38202

[izquierdista]

1. Tom will just have to get DSL

and quit waiting for his book to download on dial-up.

[leveymg]

2. Borders and B&N killed the independents. Amazon.com killed Borders.

Kill Amazon.com before it kills everything else in retail.

A world without books or places (or money) to shop. That will surely suck.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. yep.

[housewolf]

5. Yes, and Borders and Barnes & Noble killed off

B Dalton's and Walden Books, which co-existed pretty nicely with small independents for years. I was a reader and book store-lover nearly all my life. In recent years, the internet gobbles up my time instead of books, sad to say.

[cali]

6. so, so true. I must say I'm so glad I live in a town (tiny) that supports

an independent bookstore.

[liberal N proud]

4. The one in our neighborhood closed on Thursday

Sad to see it go.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Hip hip, hooray!" - RepubliCorp, Inc. (R)

"We like our voters stooopid. Screw them there printed word thingies, and pay your CABLE (R) fee so you can suck up the Fox (R) shit we shovel your way. Bwaaaa ha ha ha ha. Sneer."

- RepubliCorp, Inc. (R)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kC5MT2r5U8s/Spba1VmnAhI/AAAAAAAALbg/sAbry3POF2g/s320/Fox+News+Sheeple.jpg

[sarcasmo]

8. Kindle killing the book store?