R | 1h 51min | Drama, biography | January 24, 2023
All bookstores have a unique advantage in the retail world. Thanks to a policy adopted during the Great Depression, all book retailers can return any unsold books to publishers for full credit (in rare cases, some minor penalties might apply).
Admittedly, Amazon.com developed into a challenge few booksellers, including executives of the major bookstore chains, anticipated. Independent stores that weathered the storm of competition from Barnes & Noble subsequently found the Internet giant underpricing them on all the latest bestsellers.
However, in the early days, Amazon did not look so formidable. The online-retailing giant’s genesis is now dramatized in Khoa Le’s “Bezos: The Beginning.”…