http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70696/amazon-opens-its-first-physical-bookstore-today
I will be very interested in how this develops. Maybe a real replacement for Borders, etal.
Saw this...what is the logic? Feels very 1990.
This is kind of cool, but it reeks of 'overstock outlet.' I know the story says what they carry is based on demand, but still...
Amazon is the reason I stopped going to bookstores. Now they want me to go to one of their bookstores? Pass.
Buying books in a store? What's next, renting videos from a store? ::)
Quote from: bbmike on November 04, 2015, 11:22:34 AM
Buying books in a store? What's next, renting videos from a store? ::)
Madness!
Having worked in both video and book stores, there's worse places to work. Customers suck, but employee discounts in both were nice.
Quote from: besilarius on November 04, 2015, 07:55:16 AM
Amazon opens a real brick and mortar bookstore!
How very retro.
Eh, it's a Starbuck's Cheesfactory (or whatever) with plenty of handy reading material. I'd hang there sometimes if I lived in a city.
Like music I'd certainly not have such a varied and vast collection if it had not been for the internet and Amazon. Most the CD's and books I have I'd never even heard of let alone bought.