Amazon, the company that killed the bookstore, opens one

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By Katie HerzogNov 3, 2015, 3:52 pm57 pts
Oh, the irony. Amazon.com, the monolithic corporation that killed the brick-and-mortar bookstore, now owns one. Amazon Books opened Tuesday in Seattle. The store is stocked with 5,000 to 6,000 titles and looks remarkably like a regular bookstore. You know — from the ’90s, before Amazon killed them all.…

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