It also highlights the dangers of these megacorps -- because if one of them goes down, you don't lose just their core functionality, you also lose the hundreds of other companies they have absorbed. Borders went down, and instead of just losing the freestanding book barns in large towns, we also lost almost every mall bookstore in the nation -- which is the only bookstore that many smaller towns HAD.
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Re: Instant Hits
Date: 2014-07-01 05:13 pm (UTC)It also highlights the dangers of these megacorps -- because if one of them goes down, you don't lose just their core functionality, you also lose the hundreds of other companies they have absorbed. Borders went down, and instead of just losing the freestanding book barns in large towns, we also lost almost every mall bookstore in the nation -- which is the only bookstore that many smaller towns HAD.