It has been reported by Good E-Reader that Amazon are planning to open a shop in Seattle.I hope it might look a little like the Seattle shop in the recent pictures in the Retronaut. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was around in the early 1900s (click on the photo for a link to more pictures courtesy of Jordan Smith, Vintage Seattle and University of Washington Libraries.)
I have mentioned before that one day I'd like to open a knitting wool shop and detective agency. I have also discussed plans to open an Emporium on London's South Bank, in which I would sell death rays and rebukes - and perhaps sweets by the quarter pound. It would be called something like Smith's Emporium of Knitting, Curses, Mystery-Solving, Rebukes, Death Rays and Licorice Cuttings.
I'd love Amazon's new shop in Seattle to be a bookshop that sells knick-knacks, knitting wool and sweets in glass jars. I'd love to visit and read from one of my books.
