Readers Without Borders - 2 views

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  #1 Bonnie Sutton on 01 Aug 11

   

  http://www.slate.com/id/2299642/
  
  Of course running a bookstore is a hard, hard business in the age of the Internet. Still, Borders' decision to liquidate, closing 399 stores and laying off 10,700 employees, seemed shocking. As George Mason economist Tyler Cowen observed poignantly: "Not one single investor, in the whole wide world, thought Borders had a real economic future."

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2299642/">http://www.slate.com/id/2299642/</a> <br /> <br /> Of course running a bookstore is a hard, hard business in the age of the Internet. Still, Borders' decision to liquidate, closing 399 stores and laying off 10,700 employees, seemed shocking. As George Mason economist Tyler Cowen observed poignantly: "Not one single investor, in the whole wide world, thought Borders had a real economic future."</div>

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