Park Meadows, Lone Tree, Colorado Note: This location became an Amazon 4-Star store instead.

Some of the scrapped locations are instead occupied by Amazon 4-Star stores. In 2018, Amazon also intended to open those additional bookstore locations by late 2018 or early 2019, but the plans were halted for unknown reasons. Locations ДЄs of MarchВ 2022, Amazon Books operates 24 stores in the United States. In addition to the bookstores, Amazon will close its 4-star and pop up stores on various dates in the future. On March 2, 2022, it was reported that all Amazon Books would close. In November 2016, Amazon Books began charging non- Amazon Prime members a separate price for books and other non-electronic products, while Amazon Prime members retained the online price-matched rate. Other stores in New York City, Bellevue, Washington, Atlanta, Georgia, Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles) were expected to open between 20. It was followed by openings at Washington Square near Portland, Oregon, Legacy Place in Dedham, Massachusetts, Chicago, New York City, and Paramus, New Jersey. ДЄmazon Books' second store opened on September 7, 2016, in San Diego, California.

On February 2, 2016, a CEO of a shopping center owner claimed that Amazon planned to open as many as 400 bookstores the statement was retracted by the company the following day. ДЄmazon Books opened its third store in the Washington Square mall in the Portland metropolitan area. During development of the project, it was referred to as 'Project Anne' in filings with the city.

In February 2016, tech news website Re/code reported that longtime Amazon executive Steve Kessel was leading the retail store initiative, having previously been part of the team to launch the first Amazon Kindle e-reader. The store has been described as the first permanent store from Amazon, who opened pop-up shops and pickup outlets on several university campuses in 2015. The first Amazon Books store opened on November 2, 2015, located at the University shopping center in Seattle, Washington.

Two locations of Amazon Books have a cafe. The store also sells Amazon electronics, including the Amazon Kindle e-book reader, the Kindle Fire tablet series, the Amazon Echo, and the Amazon Fire TV. The shelves display positive reviews and star-ratings from the website and prices are matched to online equivalents. The first location in Seattle has approximately 5,000 titles stocked on its bookshelves, using shelf space to display the covers of books facing outwards instead of spines according to Amazon, the decision was made to showcase the authors and their work, rather than efficient use of space.

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