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| atboom Newbie United States Joined 5054 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Dutch | Message 1 of 4 26 February 2011 at 4:35pm | IP Logged |
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As it hasn't been posted yet:
Borders, the second largest brick-and-mortar bookseller in the US, is filed for bankruptcy recently and is closing a large amount of stores. The stores closing are having sales starting at 20-40% off their full inventory with some stores reportedly going to over 60% off. I myself have picked up 3 phrasebooks for <$10 and was o so close to grabbing a new Assimil German with Ease for ~$57. Here is a list of stores that are closing. I have checked their website, but as they are not closing all their stores, it seems the sales are limited to only in-store purchases. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5099 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 2 of 4 26 February 2011 at 6:07pm | IP Logged |
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Good find, thanks for sharing. I wonder why they're sales are down. Is it simply the economy or is it something more specific like too much competition from E-readers or Amazon.com...
I wonder if this will make Barnes and Noble the largest bookseller. Edited by Darklight1216 on 26 February 2011 at 6:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6658 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 3 of 4 01 March 2011 at 5:27pm | IP Logged |
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As far as I can tell, part of it is the economy. Another part is that more and more people are buying books online.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5099 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 4 of 4 04 March 2011 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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Books are only twenty percent off? That's not worth the drive to me.
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