The Guardian:

“People are going to think I’m Chicken Little,” says Pam Cady, the manager of general books at Seattle’s 116-year-old University Book Store, “but the sky is falling.”

University Book Store is huge, they have a fantastic selection (better than any bookstore I can think of), they host author readings all the time (useless piece of trivia: this piece was inspired by an author reading of this book I attended at University Book Store over the summer), and the funniest person in Seattle literary history used to work at University Book Store. Along with uncountable others. The bookstore has been there for 116 years.

How does Elliott Bay Book Company feel about Amazon Books? The Guardian called them up, too, and manager Tracy Taylor pointed out that many Elliott Bay customers are in fact Amazon employees. But she also said, with reference to how relatively far Amazon Books is from Elliott Bay, compared to University Book Store, "Are they going to open more locations near independent bookstores? We're definitely nervous."