No coffee, but all the data you can drink at the Amazon bookstore
The new outlet, which sells books over the counter, stocks 3,000 of the most popular, data-tracked titles
New York
A NON-VIRTUAL, real-life Amazon bookstore opened in Manhattan on Thursday with no obvious signs of corporate guilt at having driven countless independent bookstores to oblivion with the scythe-like power of the company's e-book discounting.
The store opened to a crowd waiting outside, some of them curious about the retro spectacle of a big-box bookstore, as if resurrected from the dead, selling actual books over the counter instead of the Internet. All in the name of Amazon, the Colossus that ate the Indies.
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