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Huh. I didn't know Amazon had physical bookstores.

• fermentation 5y ago
  They had covers facing forwards, which made it incredibly exhausting to browse due to overstimulation.
  • coffeefirst 5y ago
    The side effect of that is they had a much narrower selection than a typical bookstore of that size. It was pretty weird.
• stagger87 5y ago
  Yes, and they were quite fun to browse. They were laid out in a way that books next to each other would be "recommended" for each other. In that way, you would often find a group of books that were interesting to you. As others said, it was covers out, which in my opinion only had the downside of having limited shelf space.
• giobox 5y ago
  Their design and layout (the "4-star" stores too) borrowed heavily from popular late 90s/2000s UK bookstore chain "Waterstones" IMO. I've always found the physical similarity of Amazon's own retail store efforts to Waterstone's curious, as Amazon actually tried a partnership with Waterstones to sell Kindles and such years before opening their first stores back in 2012... First Amazon book store with remarkably similar design and layout to a Waterstones followed in 2015. As a UK expat living in the US my first thoughts on entering an Amazon Book store here was just how much it was like Waterstones. Could just be coincidence! > https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/waterstones-unveils-partnership-with-amazon-7770050.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/waterstones... > https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/2/9661556/amazon-books-first-physical-bookstore-opening-seattle https://www.theverge.com/2015/11/2/9661556/amazon-books-firs...