Amazon.com, Inc. is an American company dedicated to electronic commerce . Its headquarters are in Seattle , Washington State . His motto is and you’re done ( Spanish : « and ready »). It is currently the best-selling company on the Internet thanks to the quality of its service, special offers, security and the most extensive variety of products. It is currently fully diversified in different product lines, offering DVDs, music CDs, software , video games , electronics, clothing , furniture, food, books, etc.
Amazon owns other websites such as Alexa Internet , a9.com , Shopbop , Kongregate , Internet Movie Database (IMDb), Zappos.com, and DPreview.com .
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- 1 History
- 2 Sales philosophy
- 3 Products
- 4 Sources
History
Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon.com
Amazon.com was created by Jeff Bezos who, in 1994 , decided to found his own Internet business for the sale of articles, mainly books, in this way Cadabra.com appears, officially launched on July 16 , 1995 , with an initial investment of 300 thousand dollars. This would be the project that would later be called Amazon.com.
With more than 200,000 titles available at the start of the company, and being a novel service that allowed users to purchase books through an email contact, Amazon quickly became a real success. In a few months, the website managed to reach more than 2,000 daily visitors and, the following year, it managed to multiply this sum by 25. Thanks to his empire, Bezos has managed to occupy the position number 30 of the list elaborated by Forbes magazine , in which the richest personages of the world are listed. The creator of Amazon has a fortune valued at 18 billion dollars ( 2011 ).
Sales philosophy
Amazon.com, Inc. operates on four types of potential users: consumers, sellers, businesses, and content creators. The company supports developers and businesses of all sizes through Amazon Web Services (AWS), which provides access to the technology infrastructure . In addition, it generates income through other types of marketing and promotion, such as online advertising and co-branded credit card agreement. The company operates in two segments: North America and International. In June 2012 , the Company acquired the publishing rights to Avalon Books books with more than 3,000 titles from the publishing fund predominantly in the categories ofromance , mystery and western
