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 phys

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...