Personally, I prefer Waterstones’ to Borders but I am not complaining about Borders entering Q8. Maybe they ought to have tested the waters first with a smaller W.H.Smith-like newsagent concession at KWI International before jumping hook, line and sinker at the Avenues.
Does this mean we longer need to subscribe to the New Yorker, GQ and the Atlantic Monthly, from hereonin ?

About censorship, I downloaded this Chicago book and found it the silliest Egyptian author who knows everything and figured it all. He was talking about everything with no big idea beside it was located in Chigaco!

Frankly speaking, I wouldn’t like to read books describing how a village girl was shaking her boobs while cooking!. This is demeaning to literature if anything at all.

Stop ranting people, it unhealthy. :)

Second… MOI will censor it to death, so what’s the point?

However…. much as we like to bitch about MOI etc, the sad fact remains that books are a losing proposition in Kuwait. Simply not enough people read, so mega-bookstores can’t justify staying open and paying outrageous rents. If books were as popular - and profitable - as we’d like to believe… you can count on the megastore owners fighting the MOI to their deaths!

Just like the sentimental value Vinyl LP has for the music afficiando?

For your information, Kindle has already taken off. They are selling them faster than they can make them. Unfortunately, the tech behind it (wireless downloads) is designed with only the US as the target market.

Do you really care to have Borders if you haven’t been to it in the first place ? Can it compete in a market where the best it can do is become another Jareer? How many readers are there in the Avenues anyways?