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Amazon Books Store Opening In Bellevue Thursday

Amazon will open its second offline bookstore in Washington Thursday at the Bellevue Square Mall.

BELLEVUE, WA - Amazon will open its second offline bookstore in Washington state at the Bellevue Square Mall on Thursday. Amazon Books will feature titles stocked based on Amazon metrics like customer ratings, sales performance, and popularity on the review site, Goodreads. Of course, Amazon will also sell its devices like Kindle, Echo, Fire TV, and the Fire tablet.

A grand opening will be held Thursday at the store, which will be located on the first floor of the downtown Bellevue mall between the Disney Store and the Beecher's Handmade Cheese store.

Amazon currently operates Amazon Books stores in eight states including Washington. The first-ever store opened at the University Village shopping plaza in Seattle at the end of 2015.

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Amazon plans to open four other Amazon books in locations across California and New York City in the coming months.

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