Kindle did not Kill Borders

[Andara Bledin]

Unfortunately for the brick and mortar store, most of what you could get at a bookstore, you can also get online.

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[IDrinkaRum]

Unfortunately for the brick and mortar store, most of what you could get at a bookstore, you can also get online.

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The biggest thing you cannot get online is the feel of the book instantly in your hands. That's why I go to bookstores to buy my Bertrice Small and J. D. Robb books. I want them as soon as they're street legal to be sold and and I want them NOW.

[AdminAssistant]

I don't mean to sound like an elitist snob here, but most of the books I buy aren't even available at brick and mortar stores. Why would they? Theatre history, dramaturgical theory, and popular entertainment studies aren't big markets. You simply aren't going to find academic non-fiction in stores, or even on Kindle.

[IDrinkaRum]

It's a "new" technology (for all that it's been around for a few years). People are going to grumble. No matter what, I will still buy books made out of paper. I'll also buy books on Kindle. I just like to read. No matter the story is presented.

[MrsEclipse]

I use my Nook to read things on the go that I normally couldn't read anywhere but the computer. Like, um, fanfiction. Seriously, the ink screen is so much easier on the eyes than a computer screen. But I'm still mostly reading books because I work at a library and am constantly grabbing things that look interesting when I'm working. So I wasn't buying a whole lot of books to begin with.

[blas87]

Poor people like me just go to the library.

The only hard part about returning books is when there's a lot of snow in the winter time and you don't wanna drive around town just to return books.

[Andara Bledin]

I'd love to see a book version of something like Netflix. Unfortunately, it's not really feasible as things stand right now.

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[blas87]

Wow, I never thought of that before. That'd be even better than the library.

[jackfaire]

Now everyone is crying "Kindle is going to kill the paper book".

Those damn bookbinders are going to put my Scroll shop out of business damn it.

That bastard Gutenberg I had a damn good job copying books and he comes along with his printing press and puts me out of a job grrr.

The thing that gets me is it's one of the only mediums where the way the product is delivered changes and people suddenly freak out even though the same product is available.

For me digitizing things is a god send. I don't make a lot of money and as such I don't usually have the money to rent large places to live. Right now I rent a bedroom in my mom's place after that it will be a one bedroom if I am lucky a studio if I am not.

Don't get me wrong I love my job and will keep doing it because I love it but I will never be able to afford a lot of space. As such I couldn't afford spacewise to buy books, movies, music etc.

Now that I can buy all three digitally I can own everything I want to own and not have to worry about which goes my book shelf or my dresser. If I have to move in a hurry I can slip my laptop and external drives into my back pack my phone with a kindle app in my pocket and my clothes into a duffle bag boom instant mobility.

Short of my furniture I can travel anywhere and do anything I could do at home.

In the present time this is awesome because I ride a bus 4 hours everyday. Two hours in the morning and 2 in the evening. With my laptop with me I can buy my shows off the web instead of missing them or DVRing them and using all of my weekend to watch them.

If I finish a book I can easily buy another one and then continue reading instead of twiddling my thumbs. The instant I hear a song I love I can buy it right then and there.

The time I save not having to stop and do these things in a physical store can be spent hanging out with friends at other local businesses that now get my money and take my daughter places.

There are some things we will never be able to digitize and my area seems to increase in those all the time. My area just seems to focus more on businesses that are about experiences rather than media.

Here I heard Borders was closing but most people were like, "That sucks so which restaurant are we going to eat at before we go to the play, concert, etc."