It's well known and accepted that Amazon has changed the retailing world. Nowadays we can buy almost everything without leaving home. Or even worst for brick & mortars, we can go to their stores to use them as a "showroom" and then buy online. In the books' industry, we are having evidence of a new round between Amazon and the brick & mortars. After Amazon signed Ferriss, the writer of a new book called “The 4-Hour Chef", Barnes & Noble and the likes said that they won't have the book in stock, nor promote it. How will this story end? Or should we better wonder if it would end someday? The future of e-commerce (and of brick & mortars) is at stake.
Read the whole NY Times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/technology/shunning-amazon-booksellers-resist-a-transformation.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=technology
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