I was so sorry to hear that book chain Borders has closed its doors this week. They had suffered a fall in sales and had lost around £13million last year.
I shall miss the store. Regular visits to London’s West End weren’t complete without a visit to the store in Oxford Street (which closed a while before the chain’s closure) and browsed through the books on its five floors (or was it six?). When the store first opened, it looked less formal and stuffy than other bookstores at the time, and it opened for longer hours too. Now, it’s gone….
Should we really be forced to buy our books in the future from just the likes of Waterstones and Amazon?