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Twitter users react to Amazon's opening of its first physical bookshop

Twitter users speak out against Amazon physical bookstore

Amazon opens its first physical bookstore today

20 years after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a physical bookstore with books for sale on actual shelves.

Since Amazon launched online in 1995, in the UK, 33% of independent bookstores have closed in the past decade, while in the US hundreds of Borders and Barnes & Noble locations have shut down.

As expected, people took to twitter to speak their minds.

Here are some of their tweets:

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