Amazon will open its second physical bookstore in the summer — this time in Southern California — venturing further into the business that it squeezed over two decades.

“Amazon started as a bookstore, but it’s now a marketplace — an e-commerce bucket that any seller can put their stuff into,” said Jane Friedman, a publishing industry consultant.

Amazon Books still without a sign, just 12 hours before its grand opening. Cast added that there are no immediate plans to open other Amazon Books locations, but that could change.

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The books will also come with Amazon's trademark low price tags. It can afford those cut-rate prices, of course, because Amazon Books is as much a bookstore as it is a billboard.

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At Amazon Books’s sixth location—its first in New York, the capital of books—I met the publishing industry’s worst nightmare. Joseph is 22, sharp-dressed and tall, a recent graduate of ...

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