Goodbye My Borders

The time has come to say goodbye. Many have said their goodbye’s already, but I have not. During its last couple of weeks, walking though the store, I see the emptiness slowly engulfing the area. I mean there are customers walking about and employees stocking up the shelves. However, seeing some of the space being closed off, including the bathroom, with empty shelves, it says something different. Makes me wonder if this is a sign of the industry, not just manga, but also physical bookstores or even the printing industry.

Borders Group Inc. and Bookstores: Status and Effects

Lately, in the business world, we been hearing about the status of Borders. There were ups and downs in sales; closing of stores and centers; people losing jobs; delaying in payments and now a Bankruptcy Counsel is involved. Unfortunately, manga sales has been down, and one well known distributor is not shipping new products to or restocking at Borders. Who knows how many more distributors or publishers will put Borders on hold. Borders has been the place to buy discounted new manga volumes, and I hope it continues to be that for me.

Now things are getting worst. It might close...