{"id":4329,"date":"2011-07-23T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=4329"},"modified":"2021-03-14T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T17:30:05","slug":"so-borders-is-closing-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=4329","title":{"rendered":"So Borders is closing? Big deal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed, both the Angry Systems Administrator and myself are big readers. We both love books and our tastes run the gamut. Of course you might have guessed that from our Amazon store. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Last week Borders went belly up and folded it\u2019s tent. 11,000 people are now out of work with no prospects. ((Thank you Obama)) There\u2019s a lot of opinion pieces out on the web and elsewhere talking about why Borders failed. I\u2019m not going to go into that since I know of someone who has a vested interest in the publishing business. He knows why Borders went under and it may surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>He doesn\u2019t say it was Amazon\u2019s fault or ebooks. He said Borders basically committed <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200119182335\/https:\/\/kyushu.com\/gleaner\/editorspick\/seppuku.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seppuku<\/a>. Other than the initial paragraph, I\u2019m not going to lift bits from his blog. He put a lot of work writing the entry. Also, he has lots of guns. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to turn you over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26sort%3Drelevancerank%26search-alias%3Dbooks%26ref_%3Dntt_at_ep_srch%26field-author%3DLarry%2520Correia%23&amp;tag=angersentral&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957\">Larry Correia<\/a>, a highly successful <a href=\"http:\/\/baen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baen<\/a> author.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a title=\"Larry Correia\" href=\"https:\/\/larrycorreia.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Larry\u2019s<\/a> explanation on <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201216023254\/https:\/\/larrycorreia.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/21\/on-borders-closing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">why Borders failed and why he doesn\u2019t care that it did.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since, as a writer, I\u2019ve been to a LOT of bookstores, people have been asking me my opinion on Border\u2019s closing. I\u2019ve mentioned my feelings about Borders a few times on this blog, so this shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>My opinion is Borders did it to themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty rough stuff. This looks like it\u2019s going to be an object lesson in how NOT to run a business. Now I have to go off to Amazon and buy some of Larry\u2019s books. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>~The Angry Webmaster~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<span id=\"post-ratings-4329\" class=\"post-ratings\" data-nonce=\"9f1e5646fd\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_4329_1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_on.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1 Star\" title=\"1 Star\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4329, 1, '1 Star');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_4329_2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"2 Stars\" title=\"2 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4329, 2, '2 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_4329_3\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"3 Stars\" title=\"3 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4329, 3, '3 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_4329_4\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"4 Stars\" title=\"4 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4329, 4, '4 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"rating_4329_5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/stars_crystal\/rating_off.gif?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"5 Stars\" title=\"5 Stars\" onmouseover=\"current_rating(4329, 5, '5 Stars');\" onmouseout=\"ratings_off(1, 0, 0);\" onclick=\"rate_post();\" onkeypress=\"rate_post();\" style=\"cursor: pointer; border: 0px;\" \/> (<strong>1<\/strong> votes, average: <strong>1.00<\/strong> out of 5)<br \/><span class=\"post-ratings-text\" id=\"ratings_4329_text\"><\/span><\/span><span id=\"post-ratings-4329-loading\" class=\"post-ratings-loading\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/angry.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-postratings\/images\/loading.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" class=\"post-ratings-image\" \/>Loading...<\/span>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have guessed, both the Angry Systems Administrator and myself are big readers. We both love books and our tastes run the gamut. Of course you might have guessed that from our Amazon store. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,32,71],"tags":[15,62,34],"class_list":["post-4329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book","category-general","category-news-of-the-day","tag-incompetence","tag-reviews","tag-stupidity"],"views":1088,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4003,"url":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=4003","url_meta":{"origin":4329,"position":0},"title":"Obama throws Israel under the bus and&#8230;","author":"Angry Webmaster","date":"May 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin Netanyahu beats Obama upside the head with facts! 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