And I was just shopping there last week....
Thursday, January 6th, 2011 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizvogelKristine Kathryn Rusch on e-readers, the impending demise of Borders, and what all this means for publishers and booksellers
I particularly appreciate her analysis of how Borders' financial woes are likely to impact small and medium-sized publishers -- "appreciate" in the way that some people appreciate horror movies, I suspect, but she lays it out well. I also really, really hope she's right about independent bookstores stepping up if, as seems likely, Borders does go down. As one of those 80% of readers who prefer paper books, the loss of Borders won't impact me directly; our nearest Borders is forty minutes away in the wrong direction, whereas we've got two B&Ns and a very good 3-store independent here in town. But I'm all in favor of small booksellers taking the opportunity to make a comeback, and I'm really in favor of publishers getting a wake-up call about putting all their eggs in the big chains' baskets.
And I swear, WinAmp picked this musical accompaniment all on its own.
I particularly appreciate her analysis of how Borders' financial woes are likely to impact small and medium-sized publishers -- "appreciate" in the way that some people appreciate horror movies, I suspect, but she lays it out well. I also really, really hope she's right about independent bookstores stepping up if, as seems likely, Borders does go down. As one of those 80% of readers who prefer paper books, the loss of Borders won't impact me directly; our nearest Borders is forty minutes away in the wrong direction, whereas we've got two B&Ns and a very good 3-store independent here in town. But I'm all in favor of small booksellers taking the opportunity to make a comeback, and I'm really in favor of publishers getting a wake-up call about putting all their eggs in the big chains' baskets.
And I swear, WinAmp picked this musical accompaniment all on its own.
