Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.
I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.
I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
Amazon drove Borders out of business, and the vast majority of Borders employees are not qualified to work at Amazon. That's an actual, full-on problem. But should Amazon have been prevented from doing that? In my view, no.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
A nation without borders is like a house without walls - it collapses. And that is what is going to happen to our wonderful America.
The more borders we have, the more quarrels, the more wars. That's one way to think about borders - they're trouble.
A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen.
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