What is Amazon?
Amazon is a multinational e-commerce corporation, but you probably know it as a giant online bookstore. It sells a lot of things besides books, but most people know Amazon better as a book retailer.
Amazon.com is the largest and most successful online retailer in the United States. Amazon does three times as much business as its closest competitor in terms of online retail business, Staples. Amazon (which can be found online at the URL Amazon.com) sells everything from books and music to movies, e-readers, clothing, furniture, toys, and even food.
history of the amazon
Entrepreneur Jeff Bezos founded the company in 1994, when dinosaurs roamed the internet. When Bezos created the company, it was called Cadabra, the second half of the classic magic word “Abra-cadabra.” Bezos quickly realized that people thought the business was called a “corpse” (another word for “corpse”) and soon changed it to Amazon.
Why did Bezos choose the name “Amazon”?
Some different reasons. First of all, Amazon starts with “A”, placing it near the beginning of any alphabetical listing. Another reason Bezos chose “Amazon” for his online retailer is because the Amazon River is the largest in the world. Lending Bezos’s company has a very “big” sound.
Amazon started out as a small online bookstore. Bezos eventually diversified Amazon to include music downloads, eBooks, and the entire line of products you find today on Amazon.com. Amazon now operates worldwide, with companion websites spread across Europe and Asia. Amazon is now the UK’s most popular music and book retailer, and also ranks third in Asia.
amazon vouchers
The best thing about buying books and other things from Amazon is the wide variety of coupons available online. Even though Amazon’s regular prices are competitive with other book retailers, using any of the myriad of Amazon coupons found on the Web lowers the price even further.
There is always a free shipping coupon or discount code available with a simple Google search. If you want to dig a little deeper, check out TechBargains.com or the classic third-party coupon site RetailMeNot.com. TechBargains has over two dozen different coupons for Amazon.com at any one time, including “super saver” free shipping (on your order over $25) and great “percentage off” deals on select items and brands . RetailMeNot tends to have more specialized Amazon coupons than TechBargains, so if you’re looking for a particular book or CD, check it out first.
According to its website, Amazon’s vision is “to be the most customer-centric company in the world, to build a place where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online.” As Amazon’s product line grows and they capture more markets around the world, they get closer and closer to reaching that goal.