Who wouldn't want to wander the stacks of the everything (book)store.
A more on-brand Amazon bookstore would have just been a giant endless warehouse full of books, unstaffed & auto charges you when you leave
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Also an opportunity for e.g.: an AR viewer you can hold in your hands that is able to (chameleon) become absolutely any book in the world
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When you leave, it freezes to being that book permanently
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One of the best things about the bookstore experience (after the smell of books) is being able to see the full breadth on a topic
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And to select from the topical shelf the one or ones that seem most appealing to you.
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"Most debated on http://amazon.com " and other algorithm-curated shelves ignores the context the book exists within
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I would take Netflix-style algorithmic curation: e.g., "Young Adult High Fantasy with a Queer Lead Character" yessss this is *my shelf*
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Yesss this would be amazing
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Alternately: Amazon vending machines selling Kindles
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You enter the store and sit down. Alexa asks you "what do you want to read?"
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and before you know it, a teetering sky-high bookshelf shows up on the back of a Kiva robot, ready for you to perusehttps://twitter.com/jorgeo/status/876490105292075008 …
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A book vending machine where you give character names or characteristics and a book is printed per your desires
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I realize this is a very internet 1.0 vision and only works for certain stories but wow there are just so many ways this could have gone
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But, what do I know. I love books.
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It is unpardonable that someone with the power to realise a Borges-like fantastic library doesn't. Y'know, shareholders and all, but still.
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