One down… Barnes & Noble’s University Village exit good news Elliott Bay and the University Book Store?
Isn’t this tied in closely to the new Kindles from Amazon?I wonder if the message is that B&N’s concept is dead. Books (as opposed to e books) may need to be marketed locally .. not just in Elliot Bay bit in small specialized books stores like those all over Seattle.
I can even see a way this could help local book stores. Why couldn’t Amazon offer them a way to sell ebooks INSTORE? The idea would be that a customer who chose to browse in a store and wanted to bhuy a book because she saw it there could choose to purchase the book from Amazon uisng a WiFi systenm specific to that store. The store wouold get a cut.
Lets hope.