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The online retailer giant announced the closure as they continue to shake up the business and make cuts in a bid to save money.

Gloucestershire-founded Book Depository was acquired by the retail giant in 2011

Amazon.com Inc on Monday said it would axe another 9,000 roles, piling on to a wave of layoffs that has swept the technology sector as an uncertain economy forces companies to get leaner. In a remarkable turn for a company that has long touted its job creation, Amazon will have…

Redundancies to take place mostly in cloud services, advertising and Twitch livestreaming units

Amazon is eliminating roughly 9,000 more positions to make the company leaner. This follows its previous move to lay off 18,000 employees.

In another push to reduce costs and trim workforce, Amazon announced Monday its plans to lay off another 9,000 employees, bringing its total job cuts to 27,000 since November.

Amazon is to let go of another 9,000 employees worldwide as the e-commerce giant ramps up its cost-cutting measures. #The announcement was made to employees of the firm in a note by CEO Andy Jassy, who said workers in the Amazon Web Services, human resources, advertising and Twitch units would…

The job cuts would mark the second-largest round of layoffs in the company’s history, adding to the 18,000 employees the tech giant said it would lay off in January.

The move will cut jobs in web services, advertising, PXT solutions and its Twitch livestreaming arm