Amazon.com

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Amazon is an e-commerce enterprise based in Seattle, Washington. Amazon.com began as an online bookstore; however it soon added its product lines, reckoning CDs, Video games, Electronics, furniture, toys and computer softwareís. Amazon has entrenched abstract websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, France, China, and Japan. It ships globally on selected products

History

Amazon was initiated by Jeff Bezos in 1995. Company was so named "Amazon" after the world's most ample river. Amazon breed at a calm pace in the late 1990s while many other Internet companies enlarge at an accelerated pace. Amazon's "loose" growth caused a number of its stockholders to grouse, saying that the company was not reaching profit at a rapid pace. Amazon announced its first gains in the fourth quarter of 2002. Earnings continued to bloom due to product diversity and international presence: US$3.9 billion in 2002, US$5.3 billion in 2003, US$6.9 billion in 2004, US$8.5 billion in 2005, and US$10.7 billion in 2006.

Website

A standard attribute of Amazon is the bent for customers to comply bow with the web page of each output. Users must rate the yield on a grade scale from one to five stars. Such grade scales provide a basic concept of the renown and firmness of a product. To avoid copyright breach, Amazon.com does not render the computer-readable text of the book but rather a view of the page containing the found excerpt, disables printing of the pages, and puts limits on the number of pages in a book a single user can access. Additive to it customers can buy supplementary to decipher the entire book online via the Amazon Upgrade process. Amazon reap about 40% of its sales from ally, whom they call "consort". An Associate is essentially an sovereign seller or business that receives a charge for advert customers to the Amazon.com site. This is done by putting links on the websites to the Amazon homepage. If a referral output in a sale, then the ally receives a legation from Amazon. Amazon was the central online business to set up an Associates process.

Amazon Web Services

The service provides programmatic ingress to many attributes powered behind the scenes on its own website. AWS is embraced by tens of thousands of software developers.

Acquisitions

Internet Movie Database was brought by Amazon and then move upset for its prolonged users. Amazon also bought Cambridge, Massachusetts-based PlanetAll. PlanetAll operated a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. In the same deal, Amazon adopts Sunnyvale-basedJunglee.com, an XML-based data mining startup for 1.6 million shares of Amazon stock. The two agreements together were estimated at about US$280 million. Amazon also picks up Alexa Internet, Accept.com, and Exchange.com for a set of stock worth US$645 million. Amazon also purchased Joyo.com, a Chinese e-commerce Web site. It also debuted A9.com, a company centered on researching, and building innovative technology. In March 2005, Amazon annexed BookSurge a print on Demand Company. In 2006, Amazon procured Shopbop, a Madison, Wisconsin-based retailer of designer clothing and accessories for women.

Languages

English

Address

P.O. Box 81226
Seattle WA 98108 US

Contact

KCS Books Plus // We sell new and used books. Many Out of print and hard to find.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/shops/index.html/102-3973559-4713725?ie=UTF8&sellerID=A3FZ81FG2BG68A

http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&quserid=SPELLDRU&cm_re=detail*sellerinfo*sellername http://shops.half.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?HalfSearch&seller=spelldrum

KC Attic: http://stores.ebay.com/KCs-Attic

Additional Information

Vision Statement: Our vision is to be earth's most customer centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.

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