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    Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy

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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Basically, Borders is attempting to create it's own Hot Topic section in its "super"stores. I am sure that there are more desperate marketing ideas but I can not think of at the moment... Please, people: let the mall die with dignity and grace. No more life support!
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy

    Or you can listen to hip-hop ABOUT vampires...
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    @Hamilton Nolan: Just curious, is the mockfest unfolding below about the tattooed kid's "fatness" and "sweatiness" within the bounds of the new Gawker commenting rules? Not trying to be a humorless prig, but I can't even concentrate on the news item you wrote because I feel sorry for this anonymous girl, and want to give her a cookie and a hug.
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    07/21/09

    @snugbug: Yeah, I just demoted a whole bunch of that stuff. It's a bit out of hand. When images are worth a thousand words, your commentary isn't required.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Until there's an equivalent of the Crips and the Bloods for Twilight and HP fans, it will never be cool.
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    Image of Caius Caius
    07/21/09

    @Cheap Shot: Instead of drive-by shootings and drugs, we can look forward to drive-by slappings and illegal glittering.
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    Image of Aidan_ Aidan_
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    However, comic books about the Wu Tang Clan beating the ever loving christ out of Twilight vampires? Fucking awesome.

    Somebody at IDW needs to make that happen.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Yeah but Twilight will never be cooler than screaming at your parents, "You can't make me! I'm sixteen!" and then slamming the door behind you.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/21/09

    @BullfightsOnAcid: My son must be very precious, then, because he's six and screams, "You can't make me!" and slams his bedroom door.

    Suddenly i feel very old.
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    Image of Hydroceph Hydroceph
    07/21/09

    @Hydroceph: Or even precocious. But really, i was within my 15 minutes to catch that. Old, illiterate, and now disgruntled.
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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Secret: strong enough for a man, but not strong enough for the twitards.
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    Image of Castleknight75 Castleknight75
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Twilight is so terrible, and i actually attempted to read the series and just gave up to the writing. As for the music sections, i am all for them getting rid of them, I dont buy music at a book store, what I want is a bigger science fiction section over all, they always cram everything on to 2 or 3 shelves when a whole section is and not just for one book series...
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    Image of mina324 mina324
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    I never liked the idea of separate teen categories, even when I was a teenager. I'd feel like an idiot getting something from a roped-off area that screams "supercool! teenz rule!"
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    Image of goetz goetz
    07/21/09

    @mina324: I've often wondered about that. My only answer is that I, hip-deep in my twenties, am in the minority on teen marketing issues.
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    Image of pumpkinsoup pumpkinsoup
    07/21/09

    @mina324: Considering I'm over thirty, an avid manga reader, and someone who still likes to read so-called "young adult" fantasy fiction I agree. I know it's all marketing. I get that. And I'm all for getting kids to read, although I suspect teens hate being pandered to and the teens who already give bookstores a wide berth aren't going to be wooed into Borders by a few Twilight trinkets. And because this is all about me, now I'm going to feel like a big old dork when I go into the teen section to buy books or someone's lame-o mom. (I may be a mom, but I am not lame, dammit!)
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    Image of DahlELama DahlELama
    07/21/09

    @pumpkinsoup: I'm so glad I'm not alone--just replace "manga" with "anything by Kate Brian or Cecily von Ziegesar." I hate going into the teen section; I always wish I was older so at least I could pretend I was buying it for my kid.
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    If they also plan to open Denny's locations within these stores within the stores, sign me up for some Borders stock!
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    Image of goetz goetz
    07/21/09

    In reply to Book Store Trying to Make Kids Nerdy
    Cooler? No. More profitable? Ah-hell yes.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    Isn't Dreamworks worth less than the cost of a ticket to a Spielberg movie these days?
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    This is kind of a weird criteria to use...


    I mean, a Corvette costs $80,000, so does it mean something any time GM's stock trades below that, other than that I still can't afford a Corvette?

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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    03/11/09

    @badasscat: D'oh, I see you've sort of made fun of yourselves in the same way at the end of the post.


    See, this is what MTV has done to the attention spans of my generation.

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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    word of advice: stop buying shitty cigarettes in soho and you will pay less than $10 a pack for them. seriously! if you are paying $10 for marlboros of any stripe you are going to some kind of huckster bodega, stealing your precious $1.50-$2 to use for their own nefarious purposes.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    In reply to When It's Cheaper to Buy Companies than Beer
    JOHN COOK HAIKU:


    Clouds appear for money

    and bring John a chance rest from

    looking at the moon.

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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    No blossoms, no moon,

    and John Cook drinking sake

    all alone with both!
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    Scallops are tastey,

    John prefers cream sauce to the

    rancid stock of man.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/11/09

    General Motors

    Whole Foods, more Baconators,

    Cook craves not these things.
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