Once considered an Internet bookstore, Amazon now sells shoes, DVDs, video games, toys, exercise equipment the list goes on.

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Nguyen Thanh Van An, 37, is the chief executive and founder of Internet bookstore Vinabook.com, a clone of China's online bookseller Dangdang.com--itself a version of Amazon.

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Like the hapless corner bookstore, Ingram Book, based in Nashville and privately held, is squeezed by the superstores and the Internet.

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