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Amazon started as an online bookstore and was founded by Jeff Bezos.
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A brief overview of the company Amazon.com
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The first sale was: Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought
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Amazon claimed they were the worlds largest bookstore, but Barnes and Noble claimed they weren't a bookstore at all. Thus resulting in a lawsuit.
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PlanetAll was a social networking, calendaring, and address book site which launched in November 1996.
Amazon purchased the site on August, 4, 1998
2 years later Amazon shut down the site and stated "We are pleased to announce that we have completed the integration of the key e-commerce related features of PlanetAll.com into our main site at Amazon.com" -
Amazon launches their first international websites, amazon.co.uk (UK) , and amazon.de (Germany)
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Amazon aquires Bookpages.co.uk which became Amazon UK.
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In 1999 Amazon aquired the Internet Movie Database. The site is still up today and is the worlds, largest online movie database. More Information
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Amazon starts to let third party retailers to sell on Amazon's websites!
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Amazon launches Amazon Web Services
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The first E-Reader from Amazon is released! The Amazon Kindle!
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Amazon announces that the Kindle is their best selling product!
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Amazon launches the Kindle app for iTunes. Allowing consumers to read books on their iPhone's, and iPod's.
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Amazon launches Kindle apps for your Mac, Blackberry, and iPad.
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Amazon is still growing! Offering new and updated Kindles as well as Tablets, they haven't entered the smartphone race yet but expect a kindle phone! It will probably be a while til Amazon falls, but what goes up must come down.
