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1. www.latimes.com › business › la-fi-amazon-historyRemember when Amazon only sold books? - Los Angeles Times

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   Jun 18, 2017 · Amazon.com launched its online bookselling site at a time when bookstore chains such as Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks and Crown Books were familiar storefronts in American shopping malls.

2. www.npr.org › 2024/07/05 › nx-s1-5021888Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e ...

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   Jul 5, 2024 · Jeff Bezos founded the e-commerce giant in his garage 30 years ago. NPR's Andrew Mambo talks with business reporter Alina Selyukh about how Bezos built an empire and what's next for the company.

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3. www.theverge.com › 2021/2/3 › 22264551Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

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   Feb 3, 2021 · In 2000, Amazon opened the Amazon Marketplace, which let others sell products on its site. People could sell used books, DVDs, and other products alongside Amazon’s own sales pages.

   • Author: Chaim Gartenberg

4. www.cnbc.com › 2024/01/13 › in-1997-jeff-bezos-saidIn 1997, Jeff Bezos said why he chose books to sell on Amazon

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   Jan 13, 2024 · Bezos explained why he chose to only sell books on his website — at least, at first — in a “lost” video interview recorded at a Special Libraries Association conference in June 1997, which...

5. interestingengineering.com › culture › a-very-briefA very brief history of Amazon: the everything store

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   Mar 17, 2023 · This is the philosophy behind why Amazon is commonly called the everything store today. Amazon.com was registered on the 1st of November 1994. Name sorted, but what to sell?

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6. patch.com › new-york › upper-west-side-nycAmazon Closing All Bookstores, Including On Upper West Side

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   Mar 4, 2022 · In a story first reported in Reuters, the company announced that it is closing all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores, pop-up shops, and stores selling toys and home goods after experimenting...

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   Why did Amazon start selling only books?

   • Mambo: It's worth reminding people — Amazon got its start selling only books. Selyukh: Yes. He started with books because they were relatively cheap, they don't spoil … pretty sturdy to ship. And there are just millions of them, so you could sell very many titles. Mambo: So how did this go from a bookseller to a global e-commerce giant?

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   When did Amazon start selling books?

   • Amazon.com launched its online bookselling site at a time when bookstore chains such as Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks and Crown Books were familiar storefronts in American shopping malls. Promoting itself as “Earth’s Biggest Bookstore,” Amazon opened for business in July 1995, using major book distributors and wholesalers to rapidly fill its orders.

   Remember when Amazon only sold books? - Los Angeles Times

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   Why did Jeff Bezos start selling books online?

   • When it started selling books online in 1994, Jeff Bezos thought that growing big and fast was the best way to succeed online. Today, the company sells everything from books to groceries to shipping container houses. It has become a one-stop shop and has many ambitions for its future.

   A very brief history of Amazon: the everything store

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   How old is Amazon?

   • Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e-commerce Amazon is 30. Here's how a book store gobbled up all of e-commerce Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks at an event unveiling the Kindle 2.0 in 2009. Bezos founded the company in his Bellevue, Wash. garage 30 years ago on July 5, 1995.

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   Are books a good product to sell online?

   • Out of all the different products you might be able to sell online, books offered an “incredibly unusual benefit” that set them apart, Bezos said. “There are more items in the book category than there are items in any other category, by far,” said Bezos. “Music is No. 2 — there are about 200,000 active music CDs at any given time.

   In 1997, Jeff Bezos said why he chose books to sell on Amazon - CNBC

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   When did Jeff Bezos start Amazon?

   • Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaks at an event unveiling the Kindle 2.0 in 2009. Bezos founded the company in his Bellevue, Wash. garage 30 years ago on July 5, 1995. [Editor’s note: Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters and pays to distribute NPR content.] 30 years ago today, Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore in his garage.

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8. www.newyorker.com › business › currencyThe Work of Art in the Age of Amazon | The New Yorker

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   Aug 20, 2013 · The real product Amazon is selling is the ability to buy anything, anywhere: an infinite, placeless arcade containing all that money can buy, including—why not?—a masterpiece or two.