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, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I do mergers & acquisitions in retail/consumer and write about trends. Once upon a time, Amazon tried to build a physical-store ...

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 ...

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 ...