Amazon Books were physical retail stores owned by the e-commerce giant. Here's the chain's complete history.

• Amazon opened its first physical Amazon Books store in 2015 in Seattle, Washington.
• The stores sold books and other items curated from Amazon's website. They are now closed.
• Stock was based largely on Amazon analytics, like sales data and customer ratings. 

Amazon launched in July 1994, billing itself as "Earth's Biggest Bookstore." That was appropriate since the first iteration of the website only sold books, yet it had no brick-and-mortar retail presence. 

Even as Amazon expanded its inventory, adding music CDs in 1998 and a broad selection of other products in the following years, the brand remained an online-only retailer.