Die, Bookstore, Die

By now, we're all familiar with death of the bookstore-style pieces, and while we know that the situation is a little more complicated than “poor lil’ bookstore vs. the big bad internet,” we also recognize that sometimes there are simple cases of bookstores getting slapped in the face, and sometimes, getting slapped in the face to death. Melville house reports:

As if it weren’t already easy enough, Amazon has just made it easier for its faithful followers to rip off brick and mortar bookstores by coming up with a free app called Amazon Mobile 1.2.8, which allows iPhone owners to use the phone to scan bar codes of books (or any product) in stores, then buy them on the spot — from Amazon.

So now a customer can walk into a bookstore and use its stock to make purchases from Amazon instead, where the prices are probably discounted. Power to the people! (?)