My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore
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My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore
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#21. The shopping mall is named University Village due to its proximity to the University of Washington.
2. This is how emails from recruiters on LinkedIn always work. There's nothing new here.
Cady received LinkedIn messages and an email.
It was very personal in tone, but ended with
a simple choice: a button to indicate whether
or not she was interested in the offer. “I
clicked not interested.”
3. It seems absolutely bizarre to me that this article fails to mention, even once, Seattle's best independent book store: Elliot Bay Book Company (http://www.elliottbaybook.com)Re: My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore
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#4 I did not use the phrase Day One, but wondered whether the
staff, including presumably Walkie Talkie, had taken a
moment before opening that morning to reflect on Amazon’s
jargon, including that bit of eschatology.
There is a desk labelled Amazon Answers. Presumably the
questions asked of Amazon are answered by a human employee
of the store, though it’s unclear if some sort of Delphic
process involving candles and chanting occurs.
Books are not always arranged in a clear manner. On the
memoir wall Frederick Douglass abuts Anne Frank, herself
next to Ben Carson. Amazon is disrupting the alphabet.
RIP, alphabet.Re: My 2.5 Star Trip to Amazon's New Bookstore
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#6Hmmm I just assumed that the bookstore was a book-store wrapper around Amazon Lockers. The proximity to U-village denizens would make it a good place to put some.
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#7Hmmm I just assumed that the bookstore was a book-store wrapper around Amazon Lockers. The proximity to U-village denizens would make it a good place to put some.
The area where people live (closer to 45th, on the other side of the UW campus) has quite a few Amazon Lockers.
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#10I went there the day they opened and was blown away. 10x better than any bookstore I've ever been in before. I loved it.