why no more Borders book store in singapore?

[Franjipani]

my step grandpa always bring me there when i was a young boy last time and last night i dreamt i was there at borders wheelock place....then i got lost and couldn't find my grandpa ... then walk and walk then start to gancheong and tears started to roll out of my eyes and i woke up....

 

[batman1]

Borders bookstore closed,MPH bookstore closed.U can go to Popular bookstore at bras basah n Kinokuniya bookstore at Takashima shopping centre.

 

[JurongEast]

Nowadays I go to popular bookstore to buy grocery

 

[sbfuncle]

Yeah last time i always wheely to wheelock place borders to impress girls
@NanoSpeed i never lie one

 

[NanoSpeed]

Maybe they are afraid of this group:

 

[True Believer]

Borders bookstore closed,MPH bookstore closed.U can go to Popular bookstore at bras basah n Kinokuniya bookstore at Takashima shopping centre.

Soon, the only bookstores left in SG will be those selling school textbooks, assessment books and stationery. The rest will be out of business.

 

[The Crow]

Can go visit PAGE ONE at The Cathay ...

 

[red amoeba]

borders is a failed business model. high rental (at wheelock), if I don't recall wrongly, only sell english books? and for the longest time, no online presence.
but the straw that broke the camel back, prevalence of mobile devices - people either migrate to reading online or online contents -no one now has patience to read a book. Information are now acquired in bite sized, on the go.

the number of printed books aficionado is shrinking. I believe kinokuniya is also struggling surviving only because of Japanese community...I still see many of them reading paper backs.

 

[sbfuncle]

Most people go there to browse and same time browsing chiobu and not to buy. When they make it too cosy is non beneficial to themselves.

 

[ArjanParangToh]

It is as good as asking why no more Bookworm Club in SG.

 

[A Singaporean]

Coolie gene Sinkies can't read.

 

[Leongsam]

borders is a failed business model. high rental (at wheelock), if I don't recall wrongly, only sell english books? and for the longest time, no online presence.
but the straw that broke the camel back, prevalence of mobile devices - people either migrate to reading online or online contents -no one now has patience to read a book. Information are now acquired in bite sized, on the go.

the number of printed books aficionado is shrinking. I believe kinokuniya is also struggling surviving only because of Japanese community...I still see many of them reading paper backs.

The kindle version is delivered in minutes and it's often considerably cheaper. I can preview a portion of the content before making a purchase. Once I've made up my mind it takes just one click an I'm done.

If I want to sit in a cafe and read a book I just load the content on to my iPad and I can have the "Border" experience just about anywhere.

 

[congo9]

Why still people bothers about borders ?It so old school and it's out of ttime.
Those who knew borders must be quite old. It closes down on 2011

 

[True Believer]

Why still people bothers about borders ?It so old school and it's out of ttime. Those who knew borders must be quite old. It closes down on 2011

S'poreans should lament that there are no bookstores selling magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler etc. in our country. LOL!

 

[syed putra]

The kindle version is delivered in minutes and it's often considerably cheaper. I can preview a portion of the content before making a purchase. Once I've made up my mind it takes just one click an I'm done.

If I want to sit in a cafe and read a book I just load the content on to my iPad and I can have the "Border" experience just about anywhere.

I need a physical book. The online versions feel different.

 

[True Believer]

I need a physical book. The online versions feel different.

You must be an old geezer who still asks for hard copy bank statements every month.

 

[congo9]

having paper collection is good

 

[mojito]

S'poreans should lament that there are no bookstores selling magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler etc. in our country. LOL!

Paying for porn in this day and age? Loser.

 

[True Believer]

having paper collection is good

Then you will have your ups and downs like toilet paper where you may be on a roll 1/2 the time and taking someone's shit the other 1/2 of the time.

 

[True Believer]

Paying for porn in this day and age? Loser.

I love to read the articles in those magazines, you clueless wanker.