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The Seattle Times has a good story about Amazon Books, and how “it’s no longer an experiment and has taken on a life of its own as the online retailer aims to add more stores … Amazon is not providing any bookstore sales or traffic data. But the growth of the bookstore operation is evident, and it comes at a time Amazon, which got its start by convincing people it was more convenient to buy books online, is becoming more interested in the brick-and-mortar retail world that it helped upend.”

The story takes a look at howe the format has evolved, and where it might go from here, and you can read it here.
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