Amazon to shut online bookstore Book Depository on April 26

San Francisco, April 5 (SocialNews.XYZ) Amazon has announced that it will shut down its UK-based online bookstore ‘Book Depository’, which it acquired in 2011, on April 26. According to The Guardian, this comes after Amazon announced it had decided to ‘eliminate’ a number of positions across its Devices and Books businesses. Stuart Felton and Andrew Crawford, former Amazon employees, founded Book Depository in 2004 with the mantra of selling ‘less of more’ rather than ‘more of less’, the report said. The company sent out an email to vendors and publishing partners explaining that Book Depository will be closing and that…