NPR's Morning Edition surveyed changes in bookselling, focusing on Amazon's bricks-and-mortar bookstore in New York City, Barnes & Noble's new concept store in Eastchester, N.Y., and Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, N.Y.
"In so many ways, we're in a different business," Greenlight co-owner Jessica Stockton Bagnulo said, referring to the new Amazon locations. "And it seems very much like those stores are trying to replicate the online business, and we are trying to do something completely different."
Rebecca Fitting, Greenlight's other co-owner, added: "People are starting to understand... that shopping in your community helps you feel more connected; it helps your tax base; it helps make your surroundings more interesting. And if you don't support that, it goes away."