Amazon , a company that made its name undercutting brick - and - howitzer retail merchant usingcheap laborand UPS , is opening the doors to its first real book store in Seattle at 9.30AM tomorrow morning .
The store , locate in University Village , seems mostly to be a dressing table project for Amazon in its hometown . There ’s going to be about 5,000 book in a 5,500 straightforward foot retail space : far less than a traditional bookshop , because Amazon will be exhibit ledger facing cover - out rather than spur - out , in an effort to showcase the authors . coalesce that with the pricing — the same as Amazon ’s website — and it ’s hard to see Amazon making actual money from the labor .
That said , the company will have the upper hand in selecting titles , since it ’s planning to use information from its million of customers to stock up shelves with the most popular books . There will also be a space to sample Amazon ’s Kindle einsteinium - reader and Fire tablets , although I assume no - one will be attempt to sell you a Fire phone . Most notably , there ’s no peck - up pick for on-line orders , which has been a staple of Amazon ’s old forcible position .
Amazon ’s take a lot of stick for do the demise of strong-arm bookstores , so it ’s a little strange to see it opening up a fund — even with the big - data approach to armory , it ’s hard to imagine Amazon Books ferment a profit . But thathasn’t stoppedthe companybefore , so , although there are no plans for a next expansion , maybe do n’t get too attached to your friendly local bookstore .
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