Borders bookstore on Oxford Street to close
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Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
and an opportunity to take photos of photos 
el-ahrairah
forward communism, forward gerbils!
Seeing as security guards are amongst the first to be laid off during a store closure like this, I imagine that Borders will remain handy for a free read, at least for a few days. I will investigate later. With a nice big bag.
Most bookshops are quite happy to leave people browsing their books. They know that people who spend ages reading books in the shop are the same people who spend lots of money on books. I do it a lot but then I know that eventually I will leave with a (paid for) book. Sadly the demise of Borders will leave only Waterstones which I understand is part of WH Smith.
Perhaps there was never really room in the market for another chain bookshop. There is plenty of room for independents though, but they have also been in decline for a long time.
As for photographing a book, I have done that in a library - better quality than using the photo-copier but wouldn't want to appear on the video security system of a retailer while photographing their merchandise.
Perhaps there was never really room in the market for another chain bookshop. There is plenty of room for independents though, but they have also been in decline for a long time.
As for photographing a book, I have done that in a library - better quality than using the photo-copier but wouldn't want to appear on the video security system of a retailer while photographing their merchandise.
100% masahiko
i is a professor and is magical like totoro
Borders and Foyles on Charing Cross for a free read.
Does anyone know a similar book shop to Compendium (around in the 90s in Camden)?
Does anyone know a similar book shop to Compendium (around in the 90s in Camden)?
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
No, it is part of HMV.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
I guess that was the problem!
newbie
undisambiguated
I'll miss them as they had a good selection of everything. Only problem is that Amazon is still miles better and cheaper. (Although bookstores are always good for a browse...)
I'll always remember the first Borders I went in when I was in Singapore. At least the back quarter of the ground floor was full of Singaporans sitting on the floor reading the books. (It was by a small park so it was excellent for buying a book or mag and then chilling out for a bit at lunch time...)
I'll always remember the first Borders I went in when I was in Singapore. At least the back quarter of the ground floor was full of Singaporans sitting on the floor reading the books. (It was by a small park so it was excellent for buying a book or mag and then chilling out for a bit at lunch time...)
) next door to them in Charing Cross Rd.
dogmatique
merde alors
I'd always found they had the poorest selection of the big bookshops in the west end. I've wasted my time on several visits looking for something that wasn't stocked in Waterstones or Foyles. They just didn't have the diversity of stock.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
fuck boarders and their entirely corrupt aim of limiting publications and their starbucksian methods at trying to freeze out independants...
this is a good day though obivously if you work for them not so much but societaily it's a fucking great day...
this is a good day though obivously if you work for them not so much but societaily it's a fucking great day...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
waterstones next please...
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Not me. People I know who worked there in the 80s and 90s said Christina Foyle was an awful employer. Pisspoor wages, dreadful treatment of staff and scant regard for fire regs. I don't go into Foyles.
I don't know if things have changed since she died, though.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
They have Just a tad - the entire place has been given a makeover from top to bottom.
BTW Christina Foyle was convinced the staff on the shop floor were fiddling, and that is probably why she treated them like shit, but in fact it was her senior managers who had defrauded her of £10million over the years.
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Does that start tomorrow then?
http://oxfordstreet.borders.co.uk/store/oxfordstreet/71/
Guess it's already started.
A notice to all our customers:
Please note that Borders Oxford Street will be closing in early August. Your nearest alternative stores are on Charing Cross Road and at Islington's N1 Centre.
Until we close our doors for the final time, we will be selling remaining stock (excluding concessions, periodicals, electrical items and tokens/vouchers) at 50% off.
Guess it's already started.
A notice to all our customers:
Please note that Borders Oxford Street will be closing in early August. Your nearest alternative stores are on Charing Cross Road and at Islington's N1 Centre.
Until we close our doors for the final time, we will be selling remaining stock (excluding concessions, periodicals, electrical items and tokens/vouchers) at 50% off.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
I guess you're right, that explains a lot.
[misses Skoob on Sicilian Avenue]
Nostalgia ain't wot it used to be!
Skoob are now hidden in the basement of the Brunswick Centre. You can't get in from the central "mall" of the Brunswick - instead look out for the path between Marchmont Street and Handel Street at the northern end of the Brunswick that leads to the back door of the new Waitrose.
I was pleasantly surprised by the stock they manage to cram into the tiny space.
christonabike
Elm Park Bencher
Skoob is great, always found something I wanted in there
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