A Brick-and-Mortar Amazon Store?; Jonathan Franzen Loves Edith Wharton

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/02/brick-and-mortar-amazon-store-jonathan-franzens-love-letter-edith-wharton/48339/

Citing a "source to the situation," the blog Good E-Reader reported over the weekend that Amazon is planning to open a brick-and-mortar store in Seattle within the next few months. Per the source, the company plans to take the "small boutique route" and sell e-readers, tablets, and various accessories, plus books from their newly-launched Amazon Publishing imprint. If the store clears a profit, others would apparently follow. If nothing else, the timing would be appropriate, since Books-a-Million and Indigo, a Canadian bookstore chain, both announced they'd be taking Barnes & Noble's lead and refusing to stock Amazon Publishing titles in their stores. [Good E-Reader and The Bookseller]

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