With Amazon recently announcing it will open an Amazon Books store in Chicago, the e-Commerce giant will have four brick-and-mortar stores operating by early 2017. Like any major move Amazon makes, ...

Independent bookstores have long been champions of community, curiosity, and culture—and on Saturday, April 26, they get their moment in the spotlight. Independent Bookstore Day, a nationwide ...

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While it appears Amazon isn’t taking as aggressive of an approach to brick-and-mortar expansion as first reported, the retailer has made a modest step in that direction, opening its second physical ...

Amazon launched the Kindle Store back in November 2007 as a way to sell e-books online via its own platform. The online bookstore is operated by Amazon and is a subsection of its overall retail ...

Readers, patronizing their local shops for annual Independent Bookstore Day, are once again participating, perhaps unknowingly, in a competition between indie book stores and commerce giant Amazon.

The original Amazon Books store in Seattle’s University Village, before it closed in 2022. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) In November 2015, an intrepid GeekWire photographer attached a camera ...

The federal government has the power to do something about this.