Slog - Comments on Like Web 2.0, Only Dumber http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber This story (from last week) is about the new face of Borders. There's the burn-your-own-CD station, which I think other record stores are doing, and there will also be places where you can chart your own genealogy and possibly, in the near future, publish your own book, which could then, potentially, be sold on the shelves of the Borders. This is possibly the most unappealing bookstore idea I've seen since Magnetic Poetry.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:22:16 -0800 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:45:36 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Michigan Matt 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?

]]> Michigan Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940915 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940915 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:31:05 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I'm going to write a book about how unappealing this is.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940916 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:31:34 -0800 Comment by Andrew 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.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940920 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:34:03 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV 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.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940925 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940925 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:39:07 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways is there a way you can burn those self-published books in the store? a conviently placed firepit and some lighter fluid perhanps?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940949 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:59:11 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways 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.

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940950 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:00:50 -0800 Comment by mikeblanco 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.

]]> mikeblanco http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c940999 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:49:23 -0800 Comment by Gomez 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.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941013 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941013 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:10:00 -0800 Comment by laterite 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?

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941022 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:22:47 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe @9

For now, yes.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/02/like_web_20_only_dumber#c941040 Books Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:45:36 -0800