{"id":142,"date":"2011-02-17T12:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=142"},"modified":"2011-07-26T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:25:14","slug":"bookstore-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Bookstore Boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does this guy just scream “Philadelphia”, or what?<\/p>\n

It’s 1994 all over again.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Borders – born as a used bookstore in Michigan 40 years ago and long seen as the less idiotic of the large chains – filed its long-expected bankruptcy yesterday. The global reaching retail chain that helped define the age of the book superstore leaves empty malls, airport terminals and a struggling book industry wondering what indignity will follow. Borders will close hundreds of its stores in the next few week, unceremoniously sending its employees the unemployment line. Also worried are book publishers – who are getting burned to the tune of millions owed to them by the bereft chain – and mall owners, whose shopping centers are anchored by Borders’s superstores. Yes, there are still malls and shopping centers anchored by Borders<\/a>. Barnes and Noble could come out smelling like a rose. But it’s not likely. The biggest threat to Barnes & Noble is the same threat that exists to independent book sellers and to anyone engaged in the sale of printed books, the Internet.<\/p>\n

Remember in the early 1990s, when independent bookstores were closing all over the country as Borders and Barnes & Nobles moved in with their super low prices and coffee couches? When the chain bookstores were seen as great predators gobbling up local booksellers? And then Megastores like Walmart and Costco started selling bestsellers, so that neighborhood bookstores were weathering threats from all sides? Then came the internet and Amazon and most of them had to shutter their doors? The number of independent bookstores has been declining for some time, but creepily, the sales of\u00c2\u00a0books themselves are declining for everyone. Besides the obvious fact that people are quantifiably dumber than ever (I can count on 1 hand people I know who consider reading a habit up there with their Zumba classes or marathon running, their Thursday night gathering at some stupid bar).<\/p>\n

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And,\u00c2\u00a0entire categories of books, like reference books and travel books are just passe junk, now that all that information is available instantly and for free on the Internet. Now that everything is dominated by Amazon, the big chains are kaput, too.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping that someday the Kindle will be the new Betamax.<\/p>\n

Here is a woefully incomplete list of bookstore casualties of the past few years:<\/p>\n

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RIP Borders, East Kensington, London 2000 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, East Kensington, London 2000 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Wahrenbrock's Book House 1935 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders Miami, FL 2002 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rodney's Bookstore, Cambridge 2005 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Twelfth Street Books, Greenwich Village, NY. 1998 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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Borders, Oxford, UK 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Brownstone Books Bedford Stuyvesant, NY 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Cummins Books, Dinkytown, MN 1996 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Paige Turner Books Chicago, IL 2004 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP PQ Olsson's, Penn Quarter, DC 1972 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Biermaier Books, Minn, MN 1950 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP 21st Century Bookstore., Fairfield, Iowa 2004 – 2010<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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RIP Borders, West London, UK 2000 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP David Mirvish Books on Art Toronto, BC 1978 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Ivy's Books. NYC 1998 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Heritage Book Shop 1963 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, CA. 1934 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Kim's Bookshop Chichester, West Sussex, UK 2004 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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Crossroads Infoshop & Radical Bookstore<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Waldenbooks. Dallas, TX 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Waldenbooks, Berlin, Vermont 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Amnesty Books .Cambridge, UK<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Kensington, UK 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Jay's Books. Pittsburgh, PA. 1959 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Glasgow Scotland 1998 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Know Bookstore, Durham, NC 1991 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Big Money Comics. Washington, DC 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP ABC Book & Comic Emporium 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Granville Book Company, Vancouver 1988 -2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP A Likely Story. Alexandria, VA. 1987 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders. London, UK 200 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Libreria Martinez, Santa Ana, CA 1995 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP B. Dalton. Columbia Mall, 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Book & Brier Patch Regina, SK 1977 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Forever After Books SF, CA 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Murder One, Charing Cross Rd, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Jonathan Benton Books. Birmingham, AL 1993 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Dutton's Brentwoow Books 1984 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Bookstop. Austin, TX 2006 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Hughes and Hughes Dun Laoghaire, Ireland 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Librairie De France, NYC 1935 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Barne & Noble, Chelsea, NYC 1994 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Intellectual Property Books, Austin, TX 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Walden Books, Hickory Hollow Mall, 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Christian Bookshop, Leytonstone, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Park Slope Books, Brooklyn 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Waterstones, Oxfard St, UK 1999 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Cody's Books 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP This Aint The Rosedale Library, UK 1986 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Brent's Books. Vancouver, BC 1995 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Cedarhurst, NY 1978 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Brentanos, Paris. 1895 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Paragraphe Bookstore. Montreal, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Maple Street Book Shop, New Orleans. 1988 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Neighbors Bookstores. Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIp Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center 1995 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Dragon's Horde Books. Danville, IL. 1983 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Murder One, UK. 1998 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Shaman Drum Bookshop, Ann Arbor, MI 1980 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Walden Books, Valley View, Dallas. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Clovis Books, Williamsburg, Brooklyn 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Trover Shop, Capitol Hill. 1959 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Elephant Books, Barcelona. 2002 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Westminster. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Shipley Books, London. 1983 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Black Oak Books. Berkley, CA. 1989 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Nicola's Bookstore, Brussels. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Boders, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Oxford. 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Conkey's, Appleton WI. 1897 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Ballenford Books, Toronto 1986 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Aida's University Book Exchange, San Luis Obispo <\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Coliseum Books, NYC 1974 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Books, Etc. Entire chain, UK 1981 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Henry Bohn Books, Liverpool. - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Murder Ink, NYC. 1973 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Glasgow. 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Gotham Book Mart, NYC. 1920 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Book Room, Halifax. Canada's oldest bookstore. 1839 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Quinlan Keep Comics, Columbia, MI 2005 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Morningside Bookshop, NYC 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Newport, CA 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Franz Bader Bookstore, NYC. 1953 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Chapter Two Books Trenholme, Columbia<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Barnes & Noble, Harrisburg, PA Never opened - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Leeds, UK 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Mystery Loves Company, Oxford, MD. 1991 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Pages Books, Toronto. 1979 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Mill Run Booksellers. Milford, PA. 1989 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Blue Door. San Diego, CA. 1961 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP unknown Christian Bookstore 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Micawber Books. Princeton, NJ. 1981 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Stacey<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Hodge-Podge Books Albany, NY 1982 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, East London 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP TYPE. Danforth, Toronto 2008 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Skyline Books, NYC 1990 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Lambda Rising, DC. 1974 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Kate<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Double Hook Book Shop. Westmont, BC 1974 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Bournemouth Square. 2000 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP B. Dalton, Laredo Texas' only bookstore. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Buchhandlung Bookshop, Quedlinburg, Germany 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP River City Books. Northfield, MN 2002 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Charlesbank Books. Belmont, Mass, 1994 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Mystery Company, Carmel, IN 2003 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Buck-A-Book Stores Boston, Quincy, Saugus, Bourne 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Books For Less, Columbia Mall, SC 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Amazon Bookstore Cooperative. 1970 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Bookbridge, Lincoln NB 200 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Point Defiance Books. Tacoma, WA 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, London, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Ruminator Books, St. Paul, MN 1970 - 2004<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Books, Etc. London 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP WHSmith London 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP B. Dalton, Jersey City. The city's only bookstore. 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Pirie & Cavender Bookshop, Kent. 1949 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, La Cienega, LA. 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP A Different Light, W Hollywood, CA. 1979 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Now & Then Books, Kitchener, BC 1971 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Libreria Hernandez Bookstore, Madrid. 1852 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Llantrisant, Wales 2002 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Valley Books, Amherst, MA. 1975 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Last Books, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Schwartz Bookshop, Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee 1974 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Hughes & Hughes. Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Midnight Special Books. Venice, CA. 1970 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Silverlink, UK 1998 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Oscar Wilde Book Shop, NYC 1967 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Ben Franklin Bookshop. Nyack, NY 1980 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Kaydee Bookshop, Clitheroe, UK. 1950 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Robin's, Philadelphia. 1936 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Third St Promenade, Santa Monica, CA. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Bailey\/Coy Books, Seattle, WA. 1983 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP MIllions, Charing Cross Road, London. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Siop Lyfrau Blanenau, Wales. 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Abraxus Books. Ballard, WA. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Kingston 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Prairie Avenue Bookshop, Chicago. 1974 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Asahiya Bookstore, NYC 1993 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP M Coy Books. Seattle, WA 1991 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP McNally Robinson, Winnipeg and Toronto locations 1981 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Right Way Family Bookstore, Orange City, FL 1985 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Harry Schwartz Bookshop, Shorewood, Milwaukee 1972 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Charlesbank Bookshops. Boston, MA. 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Staffordshire, UK 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Robbs Hexham, UK 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Paxon Christian Books <\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Kingston, UK. 1999 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Libreria Lectorum, NYC 1963 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Barnes & Noble, Chelsea, NY. 1993 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Paperbacks Plus. Riverdale, Bronx, NY 1968 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Couth Buzzard, Seattle. 1998 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Finchley Bookshop, Ballard's Lane. 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Spenser's Mystery Bookshop 1984 - 2004<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Anchor Room Christian Books. Fort Wayne, IND. 1969 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Sofiankatu Bookshop, Helsinki 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Equator Books, Venice, CA. 2005 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Waterstones, Peterborough, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Schwartz Bookshop. Downer Ave, Milwaukee 1972 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Cook's Library Bookstore, Los Angeles 1989 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP unknown New Age bookstore in Fort Green, Bklyn 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Vertigo Books, Baltimore, MD 1992 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Costa Mesa. 2000 -2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Crossroads Christian bookstore. Mobile, Ala. 2001 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Lighthouse Long Beach, CA. 1945 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Cheesecake and Crime, Henderson, NV 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Bookstore on West 25th. Cleveland, OH. 1979 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Morningside Bookshop. Morningside Heights, NY 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Epilogue Books. Ballard, WA 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Babylon Falling, SF 2007 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP BW Bookshop, Eallng Broadway 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Librairie Paris Et Son Patrimonte, Paris. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Stockbridge Bookshop, Endinburg 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Dillions, London. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Fertile Mind. Belfast, Maine. 1980 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Duttons, North Hollywood, CA 1961 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Caliope, Washington Heights, NY 1997 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Beinkinstadt Jewish Book Store. Cape Town. 1903 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Stockport, UK 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Bury Book Shop, St Edmunds, UK 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Dutton's Books, Brentwood CA. 1984 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Leon's Book Store, San Luis Obispo 1969 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Lenox Hill Bookstore, NYC 1995 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, High Street, London. 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Logos Christian Books. Richmond, VA. 1972 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Candida's World of Books, DC 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Mitchell Family Books. Hamilton, Toronto. 1934 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders Express. Pembroke Pines 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Bodhi Tree Bookstore, Los Angeles 1970 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Berean Christian Bookstore, Cincinatti, OH 1937 - 2007<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Duthie's Books, Vancouver, BC 1958 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Olsson's Books, Washington, DC. 1972 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Yankee Paperback Exchange. Montpelier, VT 1980 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Creatures 'n Crooks, Richmond, VA. 1999 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Das Buch, Montreal QUE. 1993 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Borders, Buchanon Street, Glasgow. 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP SSG Bookshops, Scotland 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Waldenbooks Hazelton, PA 1990 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Secondhand Pages, Maricopa, AZ 2007 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP J. O'Donoghue Books Anoka, MN 1970 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Joseph-Beth Booksellers Cleveland, OH 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP With a Pipe and Book. Lake Placid, 1980 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Open Book Co-op, Milwaukee 2008 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Milestone Books, Birmingham, Alabama 2004 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Odyssey Bookshop. Novato, CA. 1995 - 2006<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Unique Books, Bayonne NJ 2003 - 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP DARE Books. Fort Green, Brooklyn 1987 - 2004<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Drake's Erotic Emporium. 1985 - 2009<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP The Book Worm, Delhi, India 1977 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Adventures For Kids. Ventura, CA 2006 - 2008<\/p><\/div>\n

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RIP Christian Science Reading Room, Olympia, WA<\/p><\/div>\n

RIP Amicus Books. Marysville, CA 2006 - 2010<\/p><\/div><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does this guy just scream “Philadelphia”, or what? It’s 1994 all over again. Borders – born as a used bookstore in Michigan 40 years ago and long seen as the less idiotic of the large chains – filed its long-expected … Continue reading 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