tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020726079869673159.post1882120933890406207..comments2024-03-17T23:04:04.405-06:00Comments on hearth/myth: Amazon wants to be your ONLY bookstore.Lynne Cantwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05397656985652575608noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020726079869673159.post-26488615488554193162012-02-03T06:42:47.309-07:002012-02-03T06:42:47.309-07:00That sounds about right, Kay. I don't doubt t...That sounds about right, Kay. I don't doubt that bringing in the bean-counters hurt Borders. That's certainly what happened to the radio business.<br /><br />I miss Borders. Shopping at B&N just isn't the same. (Don't tell my daughter I said that...)Lynne Cantwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05397656985652575608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3020726079869673159.post-67516817966415180012012-02-03T01:42:43.573-07:002012-02-03T01:42:43.573-07:00I think Borders killed itself as much as or more t...I think Borders killed itself as much as or more than Amazon doing them in.<br /><br />I could link a million articles from the Ann Arbor news (Borders was founded and headquartered here) about how badly it was run as a business, particularly in the last few years.<br /><br />Their worst problems started when booklovers stopped running the company and it was turned entirely over to business executives who might have had the correct degrees but not the passion for the product the core company needed. They valued the greenies more than literature - and the company started going downhill pretty quickly. As the selection shrunk and shrunk fewer and fewer people shopped there and it went into a death spiral. Throw in bad decisions on online sales, ebooks and the like and there you go - the company was falling down the one seater.<br /><br />Borders might have been saved if book people had been in on the major decisions - we could have used a national chain which specialized in carrying books NOT carried by Amazon, for example (and yes - there are books out there not carried by Amazon).<br /><br />The Ann Arbor News said something to the effect that Borders could be used a textbook example of how business experts can actually destroy a company they were brought in to help.krobinetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806325334388135059noreply@blogger.com