[Jabberwalker]

I'll tell you who's next: Chapter's/Indigo.

[andyt]

Just closed their downtown store in Vancouver

[Jabberwalker]

The stores are empty of people and everything is on sale. Books have become obsolete. Who'd have thought.

[andyt]

Real shame.

[herbie]

The Source is owned by Bell. Phone and dish sales should prop them up, but I've seen a couple malls with both a Bell store and a Source. As stupid as Best Buy when they built stores to compete with their own Future Shop stores we were used to.
Source still looks like and feels like a Radio Shack.
Heard the high rent killed Chapters in Vancouver, but they were planning to reopen in another part of town by Sept.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The stores are empty of people and everything is on sale. Books have become obsolete. Who'd have thought.

I don't know about that. The big Chapters in town here is always full and you have to wait in line to pay for your overpriced and underwhelming books. But, then again it could be population demographics. There's a shitload of older people here who won't use a reader or tablet because they grew up with books and that's what feels comfortable.

I know. I bought a Sony ereader for the wife and it sits on the shelf unused. Tablets are for Facebook and email but books are for reading, silly wabbit.

[andyt]

How many good book stores did Chapters eat? In Vancouver they destroyed Duthies, which was an incredible store and a haunt of mine at the time. So now it's time for Chapters. In the states, Barnes and Noble seems to be going under. Glad I bought lots of books while they were still going.

[herbie]

I can buy a book online for $15.99
Or I can grab it at Costco for $7 and read it in the bathtub. And then swap it to a friend for one of hisI have;t read.
Had e-readers for years and bought a couple $1.99 specials. That's it, sits there unused.

[martin14]

herbie herbie:

Had e-readers for years and bought a couple $1.99 specials. That's it, sits there unused.

Dunno, friend of mine has to commute from Maple Ridge to downtown every day.
About 45 minutes on the train.
She has an ereader, gets used every day.

Works for some.

[Jabberwalker]

I just read a book on a tablet and I found it to be rather tedious ... not the content, but the process. I think that I prefer paper myself but time is marching on.

[ShepherdsDog]

I bought a Kindle and I like the fact that I can change font size and the screen brightness. A charge lasts for about 80 hours. I have a whack of ebooks and audiobooks stored on my computer as well, more than I could read in two or three lifetimes. I've also bought a few textbooks from Amazon for kindle as well

[OnTheIce]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The stores are empty of people and everything is on sale. Books have become obsolete. Who'd have thought.

I don't know about that. The big Chapters in town here is always full and you have to wait in line to pay for your overpriced and underwhelming books. But, then again it could be population demographics. There's a shitload of older people here who won't use a reader or tablet because they grew up with books and that's what feels comfortable.

I know. I bought a Sony ereader for the wife and it sits on the shelf unused. Tablets are for Facebook and email but books are for reading, silly wabbit.

Chapters has got smart and re-imaged their stores to sell more than books.

Technology, gifts, etc. It's a great store for some great unique gifts.

I don't know anyone that reads paper books anymore. My wife reads 2-3 books a month on her ereader and I read a couple a year on the iPad. I much prefer the iPad over a typical book.

[2Cdo]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

The stores are empty of people and everything is on sale. Books have become obsolete. Who'd have thought.

I don't know about that. The big Chapters in town here is always full and you have to wait in line to pay for your overpriced and underwhelming books. But, then again it could be population demographics. There's a shitload of older people here who won't use a reader or tablet because they grew up with books and that's what feels comfortable.

I know. I bought a Sony ereader for the wife and it sits on the shelf unused. Tablets are for Facebook and email but books are for reading, silly wabbit.

Chapters has got smart and re-imaged their stores to sell more than books.

Technology, gifts, etc. It's a great store for some great unique gifts.

I don't know anyone that reads paper books anymore. My wife reads 2-3 books a month on her ereader and I read a couple a year on the iPad. I much prefer the iPad over a typical book.

I much prefer a real book to an e-reader, but I do have one and it's useful when travelling. Beats hauling a stack of books.

[Public_Domain]

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Books have become obsolete.

Books are not obsolete. Book stores are.

My signed, first-folio edition of "The Hunt for Red October" is worth around $2500.

The Kindle version is worth about fifty cents.

Books will always be in demand. We just don't need to have bookstores anymore in order to buy them.