Amazon has partnered with Purdue University in Indiana on the Purdue Student Store, which will not only offer discounted physical and digital textbooks, but, in early 2015, will also bring staffed customer order pickup and drop-off locations to Purdue’s campus, as well as expedited shipping benefits phased in over the course of the 2014-2015 academic year. It’s Amazon’s second co-branded college store after the first, with University of California, Davis, launched last year. Founder and former managing director of the Book Depository Kieron Smith has launched his new online bookselling venture, Best Little Bookshop, in beta. Smith, who left Book […]