Every time Amazon opens a new bookstore they invite the local press to a preview and receive glowing write-ups that all read pretty much the same as the stories that ran in the previous cities. But the opening of their first New York City store on Thursday at Columbus Circle, a modest 4,000-square-foot space with 3,000 titles, means that those preview pieces are from national news organizations. (Reportedly, 20 percent of that space is devoted to Amazon’s devices.) So once again we hear how the company says they are using data to drive obvious decisions that regular booksellers have already […]
