This place opened up just down the road from us. . .well, okay, in the township near the town I live in. But it doesn't look like it justifies a car trip, though, does it?

I'm going to write a book about how unappealing this is.

and to think, I used to like Borders better than Barnes and Noble....at least B & N had chocolate chip cookies that were tasty until they started to overbake the damn things. But I digress.

If only someone would come up with a way that I might be able to burn a CD in the comfort of my own home!

Sigh.

is there a way you can burn those self-published books in the store? a conviently placed firepit and some lighter fluid perhanps?

my, my, my...judging by my typing and spelling in the previous post, I would be happy to volunteer to be the first roastee in the new Borders Burn-A-Book Firepit.

The future book store will have an Espresso Book Machine in it. All the books will be stored digitally, maybe one copy on the shelf. When you buy a title it will be printed and bound right at that moment. One of the big sources of waste in publishing (besides Ann Coulter books) are books that are printed, not sold, and shipped back to the printer. All that will be eliminated.

Well, at least it's a creatively interactive marketing idea, because Borders has been sliding towards Waldenbooks-level irrelevance for years, if it hasn't already landed there.

So we admire the musician who bypasses major label hegemony via itunes/cdbaby/etc but revile an author who wishes to do the equivalent in the publishing world?

@9

For now, yes.