I am trying to find an article (or maybe it was just a blog post) to give to Rachel Swirsky in response to her post abt micropresses and Borders. I read it somewhere a week or two ago — it was abt the Borders drama, w/ a lot of comparison to what went down in the music industry, and sort-of made the case that the loss of one of the big chains could ultimately bode well for indies.
I had it in my head that Richard Nash wrote it, but I can’t find any references to it on his website, so maybe I made that up.
Did anybody else read this? Can you tell me where I read it and how to find it?
Freaking internet, man.
Search your Google Reader
I thought of that. Is there any way to do that other than scrolling through old shit?
OH, there IS a search pane, right at the fucking top. Duh.
I found it — turns out the article I was remembering was by Dale Peck of all people — and it isn’t really abt Borders closure. The part I was remembering is at the very end.
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/07/020711-opinions-oped-bookstores-peck-1-2/
That was a really interesting article, Tim. Thanks for sharing.
Is it this?
http://theweek.com/article/index/212130/borders-goes-bankrupt-the-end-of-the-bookstore
Also, this isn’t what you’re looking for, but it makes for interesting related reading:
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+bookstore+in+America%3a+Borders.-a019666676
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