Thread: Amazon's First Bookstore Opens in Seattle
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Old 11-05-2015, 07:20 AM   #65
John F
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Amazon's store encourages this.

Other stores frown upon it, call it showrooming and think it is "a genteel form of shoplifting".
http://www.teleread.com/amazon/is-sh...s-shoplifting/

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/monica...f-showrooming/

http://elliott.org/is-this-right/eth...ne-buy-online/

The ABA continually rails about it...
(Shrug)
The Amazon b&m probably won't appeal to the smell afficiados for a while? Won't it take a while for that "old book smell" to permeate the store?
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