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by ScalaFan 2544 days ago
Borders Bookstore didn't want to cannibalize sales either and they don't exist anymore.
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dredmorbius 2544 days ago
Citation?

AFAIU Borders succumbed more to overexpansion and debt than legacy-protection.

See:

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/19/138514209/why-borders-failed-...

http://business.time.com/2011/07/19/5-reasons-borders-went-o...

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adventured 2544 days ago
It's not a coincidence that Borders, Waldenbooks, Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble all got, essentially, decimated in the same era that saw the rise of Amazon and its Kindle.

Waldenbooks had been around since 1933. Books-A-Million dates to 1917. Borders to 1971. Barnes & Noble has been around in some form for ~150 years.

It wasn't overexpansion and debt that destroyed them all (yes, some are still standing in a straggling-on-zombie sort of way).

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dredmorbius 2543 days ago
That is not the same as saying cannibalisation-aversion killed the firm.

I'm aware the industry has seen shifts.

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