To the Point
Amazon Is Opening…Bookstores?
The Internet shopping giant Amazon may have a surprise for retail customers. Famous for driving traditional bookstores out of business, last year Amazon opened its own brick-and-mortar outlet in Seattle. Now, it appears to be planning a chain of stores for customers who want to walk in and thumb through the pages.
By Warren Olney • • 8m ListenThe Internet shopping giant Amazon may have a surprise for retail customers. Famous for driving traditional bookstores out of business, last year Amazon opened its own brick-and-mortar outlet in Seattle. Now, it appears to be planning a chain of stores for customers who want to walk in and thumb through the pages.
Greg Bensinger is a tech reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Miriam Sontz is CEO of one of America's best-known chains of bookstores…Powell's in Portland, Oregon.
Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Gideon Brower
Independent Producer
Greg Bensinger
Wall Street Journal
Miriam Sontz
Powell's Books