Amazon Opens Its First-Ever Bookstore in Seattle

Seattle Times: Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon is opening a shopping storefront with books for sale on actual shelves. At 9:30 Tuesday morning, the online retail giant will open its first-ever brick-and-mortar retail store in its 20-year life, in University Village. The store, called Amazon Books, looks a lot like bookstores that populate malls across the country. Its wood shelves are stocked with 5,000 to 6,000 titles, best-sellers as well as Amazon.com customer favorites.