Comments on: Various http://sararyan.com/2008/02/various/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:59:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sara http://sararyan.com/2008/02/various/#comment-4099 Sara Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:31:15 +0000 http://sararyan.com/2008/02/various/#comment-4099 Thanks for the inside scoop, Angela! I need to make it back to Ann Arbor again one of these years... Thanks for the inside scoop, Angela!
I need to make it back to Ann Arbor again one of these years…

]]> By: Angela http://sararyan.com/2008/02/various/#comment-4096 Angela Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:54:50 +0000 http://sararyan.com/2008/02/various/#comment-4096 I work for Borders corporate now and my fiance is working at the concept store in the digital center. I love the digital center (not just 'cause Billy works there, lol). I need to buy myself a non-iPod mp3 player so I can take advantage of their audiobook download center. The cooking destination is awesome as well; you can print out free recipes and watch cooking videos and awesome stuff like that. The children's center does not include YA, however. I was pretty disappointed by that. Billy had been telling me how they're experimenting with book displays and trying to put more emphasis on face outs so I wandered over to the YA section and...all of the books were just crammed together, only the spines facing out on most of them. The only cool part was the display for "Twilight" - that had an attractive table set up with a cool red ribbon draped over and intertwined with different piles of books. In short: the new stuff they're doing is awesome. However I feel that in the rush to be new and awesome and different some of the non-cutting-edge parts got forgotten. Hopefully that will be fixed soon once the store is on its feet. I work for Borders corporate now and my fiance is working at the concept store in the digital center.

I love the digital center (not just ’cause Billy works there, lol). I need to buy myself a non-iPod mp3 player so I can take advantage of their audiobook download center. The cooking destination is awesome as well; you can print out free recipes and watch cooking videos and awesome stuff like that.

The children’s center does not include YA, however. I was pretty disappointed by that. Billy had been telling me how they’re experimenting with book displays and trying to put more emphasis on face outs so I wandered over to the YA section and…all of the books were just crammed together, only the spines facing out on most of them. The only cool part was the display for “Twilight” – that had an attractive table set up with a cool red ribbon draped over and intertwined with different piles of books.

In short: the new stuff they’re doing is awesome. However I feel that in the rush to be new and awesome and different some of the non-cutting-edge parts got forgotten. Hopefully that will be fixed soon once the store is on its feet.

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