Alas, Borders

 

Borders is dead.  The bookstore chain failed to find a white knight that satisfied its creditors, and will go into receivership within the next few days.This, my friends, is bad.  Borders was nearly half the bookstore sales in North America.  While competitors like Amazon and Barnes & Noble will doubtless pick up some of the slack, I've been reading lament after lament from readers who are no longer within easy commuting distance of a big bookstore, or any bookstore at all.   Small stores...