Amazon Started His First Bookstore For U-Village

Category: Business

Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a shopping center storefront with books for sale on actual shelves. The bookstore owners often think of Amazon.com as the enemy. Now it’s becoming one of them. At 9:30 Tuesday morning, the online retail giant will open its first-ever brick-and-mortar retail store in its 20-year life, in University Village. The store, called Amazon Books, looks like bookstores that populate malls across the country. Its wood shelves are stocked with 5,000 to 6,000 titles, best-sellers as well as Amazon.com customer’s favorite. Last month, the online book newsletter Shelf Awareness broke a story speculating that Amazon have developed the store located at former Blue C Sushi. - See more at: http://www.khanstory.com/2015/11/amazon-started-his-first-bookstore-for.html#sthash.euA7uRiW.dpuf