Amazon reportedly opening physical bookstores nationwide

Amazon is reportedly making the move from just an online marketplace to the world of retail with the opening of physical bookstores.

Amazon has separated itself as one of the most innovative and powerful businesses of our time. By dominating the online marketplace, Amazon has been able to make it next to impossible for retail bookstores to stay competitive.

This makes a recent report by Gizmodo rather confusing.

The report says that Amazon is to open over 300 bookstores in the near futures, which seems to go directly against the company’s goals from its inception.

But by effectively destroying the rest of the retail book market, Amazon must be thinking that they can now take over. The report states the stores will still sell books for the same price as they are listed on the company’s web site, so the thought may be that by eliminating the shipping costs, business will stay profitable enough to support these retail locations.

The article does say that the sources are anonymous and that Amazon employees are upset with the report, but that does not falsify the claims, as nothing has been outright denied. Denying the report on-the-record would serve to squash these potential rumors, but it looks like we will indeed be seeing physical Amazon stores in the near future.

This officially brings the Internet marketplace into the physical world, thus beginning a digital takeover straight out of a science fiction story. That, or just the start of a business trend that may change the state of retail.