Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was a feminist bookstore located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that operated from 1970 to 2012. It was the first lesbian/feminist bookstore in the U.S. The shop was named after the Amazons, a mythological tribe of fierce and independent women. After decades in business, it sold its name to Amazon.com. In 1970 when Amazon was founded by Rosina Richter Christy and Julie Morse Quist, it was far from a full-fledged bookstore. The books were kept in the front room of the women's collective they lived in and books were only available from 3 to 6 PM
Strand Bookstore 12th Street and Broadway for $8.2 million, by which time the Strand was the largest used bookstore in the world. As of June 2017, the store had around 2.5 million books. At that time, the oldest book for sale in the Strand is an edition of "Magna Moralia", which is priced at $4,500. The most expensive book is a copy of James Joyce's "Ulysses" at $38,000. Strand Bookstore The Strand Bookstore is an independent bookstore located at 828 Broadway, at the corner of East 12th Street in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, two blocks south of