2024-11-21T15:20:46-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149933878/what-is-a-physical-bookstore-without-that-many-books Julia Ingalls 2016-03-09T13:45:00-05:00 >2016-03-17T22:19:10-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/9j/9jvxccmcprnsxlek.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Called Amazon Books, the store will be located at Westfield UTC mall near UC San Diego...The store will presumably resemble the Seattle location, which sells a limited selection of Amazon's best-reviewed books. That venue also doubles as a showroom for the e-commerce brand's expanding hardware lineup, which includes its Kindle, Fire TV, Fire tablets and Echo. The Echo, the company's latest gadget, is an in-home personal assistant powered by artificial intelligence.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Although small, independently-owned bookstores have been thriving lately, national chains&mdash;such as Borders Books, which shuttered its doors in 2011&mdash;have not adapted as well to Amazon's disruptive online model of cheap, on-demand books. Now the online retailer is reversing its brick-and-mortar-be-damned strategy once again by opening another physical bookstore&nbsp;in <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/143130423/there-s-now-a-pedestrian-bridge-on-the-u-s-mexico-border-that-let-s-you-fly-into-tijuana-and-walk-out-into-san-diego" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">San Diego</a> (its first, in <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/146268318/seattle-builds-village-for-the-homeless" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seattle</a>, opened in 2015). The faceless behemoth can delight in the realities of face-to-face retail while likely primarily pushing its non-book, book-reading devices.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/8d/8duf3ookiskcorxm.jpg"></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/140411729/1-star-amazon-reviews-of-famous-architecture-texts Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2015-11-06T18:33:00-05:00 >2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/71/71qg05w2ro0rq57o.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>You might have already heard that Amazon <a href="http://qz.com/539792/amazon-is-opening-its-first-bookstore-today-in-a-mall-where-a-giant-barnes-noble-used-to-be/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">opened its first physical bookstore</a> earlier this week, called (in very non-SEO fashion) Amazon Books. Located in Amazon&rsquo;s hometown of Seattle &ndash; ironically within a mall that used to house a Barnes &amp; Noble &ndash; most everything in the brick-and-mortar store is linked to the experience of the e-commerce space.</p><p>Recommendations, instead of being heralded by professional critics or Review lists, are tagged by average ratings or online sales. Inventory is metered out by online popularity. Prices <a href="http://qz.com/542112/you-will-literally-never-guess-how-to-buy-books-at-amazons-new-bookstore/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fluctuate</a> with Amazon&rsquo;s online rates. And individual books are accompanied by user review placards.</p><p>While Amazon Books tries to combine the best of online and offline book-browsing and buying, you just can't emulate some online abilities offline.&nbsp;Like the purely joyful act of reading disgruntled shoppers&rsquo; negative reviews of well-known books.&nbsp;</p><p>To this end, please enjoy this selection of one-star Amazon reviews from famous architecture texts. Some reviews have been...</p>