DEATH OF A BOOKSTORE
A sign left by a distraught reader on the windows of the just-closed Lincoln Center branch of Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.
A sign left by a distraught reader on the windows of the just-closed Lincoln Center branch of Barnes & Noble in Manhattan.
In Britain, Borders UK has gone into administration, as they call bankruptcy, and the other big chains, most notably Waterstone’s, are not asking for whom the bell tolls. Meanwhile, in the US, both Borders and Barnes & Noble both posted quarterly losses, and, according to the AP, both “forecast a difficult holiday season, saying competition …