Amazon’s new bookstore keeps shoppers on the Amazon website

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Market Watch
Tonya Garcia
May 24, 2017

Amazon.com Inc.’s first New York City bookstore officially opens for business on Thursday, bringing the number of bricks-and-mortar bookstore locations to seven.

The store occupies 4,000 square feet in The Shops at Columbus Circle, a mall that once had a Borders bookstore, where an H&M HMB, -0.48% is now housed. Other occupants include Whole Foods Market Inc. WFM, +0.03%  , Coach Inc. COH, -0.70%  , Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. KORS, -0.41%  , and high-end restaurants Per Se and Masa.

Amazon Books will have about 20 associates and stock 3,000 books, all presented with their covers forward and accompanied by a placard featuring a customer review and a bar code that can be scanned using the Amazon AMZN, +0.28% app for pricing and additional information.

More... http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazons-first-new-york-city-bookstore-opens-on-thursday-2017-05-24

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I worked at that site, in 1963, when it was 10 Columbus Circle. That was in the office tower section of the New York Colliseum, then the convention center preceding the Javitz Center.

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I've worked in a Brentanos and a Borders in college.

I'll be interested to see what this looks like next time I'm in the city.

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I've worked in a Brentanos and a Borders in college.

I'll be interested to see what this looks like next time I'm in the city.

There should still be a subway stop right there.

[Polly Ticks]

It will be interesting to see how the concept plays out, and if these stores are still open in a couple of years.

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It will be interesting to see how the concept plays out, and if these stores are still open in a couple of years.

Maybe B&N will learn some tricks.