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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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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one off at vegas airport for CES three years ago :)
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alt.: a panopticon bookstore, that sells the one you were most interested in, via a print-on-demand machine as you leave
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@JeffBezos why aren’t you doing this?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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