Amazon announced today that their 87 pop-up stores across the U.S. will close by the end of the year as they re-evaluate their brick-and-mortar strategy.
If you are a shop that sells books, is that enough to call yourself a bookshop? Musings on what it means to be a bookshop, and what Amazon Books really is.
Shopping at the physical Amazon Books store in Chicago shows reveals interesting new approaches, inexplicable new complications, and a lot of questions.
A look at my visit to the newly opened Amazon physical bookstore
