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Amazon.com, Inc., is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [ 1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to ...
Amazon Marketplace. Amazon Marketplace is an e-commerce platform owned and operated by Amazon that enables third-party sellers to sell new or used products directly to consumers on a fixed-price online marketplace alongside Amazon's regular offerings. Using Amazon Marketplace, third-party sellers gain access to Amazon's customer base, and ...
Amazon opened its tenth physical book store in 2017; [93] media speculation at the time suggested that Amazon planned to eventually roll out 300 to 400 bookstores around the country. [92] All of its locations were closed in 2022 along with other retail locations under the "Amazon 4-Star" brand.
Incorporated is a list of online marketplaces to which numerous small independent booksellers belong. AALBC.com, launched in 1998, focuses on books written by, or about, people of African descent. AbeBooks, online marketplace for used books, owned by Amazon.com since 2008. Adrian Harrington, rare and antiquarian books, based in the United Kingdom.
Amazon's online stores plus third-party sales together make up its e-commerce segment. That segment accounted for $89.3 billion, or 62% of the breathtaking $143.3 billion in total sales in 2024's ...
AbeBooks ( / ˈeɪb.bʊks / AYB-buuks[ 1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.
Amazon Market Cap, 52-Week Range. $448.8 billion-$793 billion. 2017 Revenue. $177.9 billion. 2017 Profits. $3 billion. GOBankingRates’ Evaluation of Amazon’s Net Worth. $107.9 billion. All ...
Retrieved December 18, 2011. Without rival, the twentieth century's king of the genre is Louis Cha. Estimates of his book sales reach up to 300 million copies. One editor at the Far Eastern Economic Review estimated that, if one also counted the pirated copies, over 1 billion of Cha's books have been sold.