I try to support my favorite authors as much as I can, so I will usually buy a copy either at release or when it hits paperback.

I tend to use the library for books or authors I am unsure of. If I like it and think I will reread it I will buy a copy. I've recently downsized my personal library cause I just, sadly do not read as much as I did about 10 years ago. Books were just collecting dust.

Glad they are doing this. I was at Borders near the tail end of the business.

When I started it was very bookseller focused. Store managers had a big say in inventory and could cater to local interests. I for awhile was in an area with a large African-American demographic and we had a very large African-American fiction section. It quite literally rivaled in shelf space to our fiction and genre fiction sections.

Corporate buyers took the reigns and the section was reduced to about 3 cases cause that was the company average and our sales started to really suffer and the complaints came rolling in.

Don't even get me started on Borders "Make Books" sales strategy. Vendor provides us with a title at a huge discount for all booksellers to now push onto every customer no matter what. "Oh you're here looking for sci fi titles? have you thought about this book about dying of cancer instead? real page turner!" It was awful

That's silly. People who study medicine for decades have no more knowledge than my google search. /s