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this blog entry from Time magazine is very annoying. The entire thing tries to connect Borders' bankruptcy to Barnes and Noble, implying that because one large chain went belly-up, B/N is next. Funniest lines, in my opinion:
For now, Barnes & Noble seems to be far from its final chapter. The company still has about $900 million more in assets than debt.
Nevertheless, the writer tries to find shadows lurking everywhere, mentioning that B/N has had to close "a handful of stores in the past few years". Yikes!
During Christmas time I went to both B&N and Borders. You can't compare the two, at least the ones near where I live. Granted B&N is nothing like it used to be (now it thinks it wants to be a children's toy shop also) but the interior of the store, meaning the books being offered, were like night and day, in different time zones, in different years, on different planets.
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