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« Last post by 40hz on February 02, 2015, 07:49 PM »SF writer Cory Doctorow posted some very sad news on Boing-Boing. One of the very few independent science-fiction bookstores left in the USA, the famous Borderlands Books in San Francisco is planning on shutting its doors by March 31, 2015.
Their blog post serves up a neat summary of the seemingly insurmountable challenges an independent bookstore faces under the current realities of retail book selling.
You can read it here.
There is still some small hope. From their blog:
Hopefully some clever Jill or Joe will come up with an idea in time.
If not, "So it goes."
Their blog post serves up a neat summary of the seemingly insurmountable challenges an independent bookstore faces under the current realities of retail book selling.
You can read it here.
There is still some small hope. From their blog:
Some of you reading this probably have questions popping into your minds -- Is there a way to keep Borderlands open? What alternatives have you considered? What about moving out of SF? What is going to happen to the cafe? Is the business for sale? And so on. Before asking us your questions, please wait for a week. We'll be sending out and posting updates frequently over the next week or so and those updates will probably answer most of your questions. We will also be holding a public meeting in the cafe at seven P. M. on Thursday, February 12th. We'll be on hand to answer questions and moderate a discussion about alternatives to closing the store. Although we do not believe that any viable alternative exists, we also think that we have a very smart and imaginative group of customers. It is not impossible that we've missed a potential solution, and so we want an opportunity to hear your thoughts.
Hopefully some clever Jill or Joe will come up with an idea in time.
If not, "So it goes."
My GF, however, would have probably run through the entire list. Unlike me, she actually likes cars. And she's not immune to the automotive siren's song of 'fine motoring.' (In many respects we're as opposite as they come. 
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But sooner or later we're all gonna have to acknowledge that a certain thing we were warned about - and possibly feared the most - has already come to pass. It's no longer a question of what or if. It's now become the far more frightening question of what to do about it.
