Amazon Opens Its First Bookstore as Extension of Website

Online retail giant Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore on Nov. 3, two decades after it began selling books over the Internet and helped drive a number of shops out of business.

A customer Kmakes one of the first purchases at the opening day for Amazon Books, the first brick-and-mortar retail store for online retail giant Amazon, in Seattle on Nov. 3. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

SEATTLE—Online retail giant Amazon opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore on Nov. 3, two decades after it began selling books over the Internet and helped drive a number of shops out of business.

It will offer as many as 6,000 top-rated titles, culled from Amazon.com customer ratings, sales, preorders, and other factors.