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Opened Amazon soon hundreds bookstores?

The online retailer Amazon plans the boss According to the second largest American shopping malls operator to open its own chain of stores. “I hear that they are aiming 300 to 400 bookstores,” explained Sandeep Mathrani of General Growth Properties on Tuesday during a conference call with analysts.

Amazon operates far a single bookshop, which is located in Seattle. This, the Group has opened in November as a test. With an advance in the order of magnitude of the largest online retailers would enter into direct competition with the conventional bookshops. The US leader Barnes & amp; Noble operates nationwide 640 stores.

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“Amazon stationary bookstores and their goal is to As far as I understand it, to open 300 to 400 bookstores, “Mathrani said, without giving further details. About further plans there has been no speculation. Observers pointed at that time on a certain irony of the situation which, as the online retailer had contributed to from various major book stores in the US.

An Amazon spokesman did the expressions Mathranis not want to comment, wrote that ” Wall Street Journal “. A spokesman for General Growth declined further comments from.

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