Borders announced it was closing some of its stores earlier this year. This included the stores in Union City and Santana Row. While I was in Milpitas today, I saw several people holding up signs announcing a closing sale for the store there. I didn't know about the closing until today; Borders added 28 stores to the list in Marc. Is B&N next? Are the chains being affected by the economy and competition with internet merchants? Many local bookstores no longer exist; what's going to happen once the chains disappear and then Amazon gets hit because of high oil prices?

There wasn't really anything I wanted to get, even at 60% to 70% off the retail price, but I did see copies of Andrew Bacevich's Washington Rules, Tom Engelhardt's The American Way of War, World Made by Hand, and Shop Class as Soulcraft.