Thread: Amazon's First Bookstore Opens in Seattle
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Old 11-04-2015, 12:04 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle View Post
This discussion makes me wonder how bad traditional American bookshops are. Here in Germany even a small bookshop will have more than 5000 titles in stock, and if you have to special order, you can pick up your book the next morning. Most shops will also deliver the book to your house without charge (a recent development, because of Amazon...)
Amazon Books is unusual because it _only_ has 5,000 titles in stock. In the US this is rare to the point of nonexistence.
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