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I believe his original vision was to be the worlds largest book store offering. Something brick and mortar book stores couldn't do because of shelf space limita
by tppiotrowski 4y ago
I believe his original vision was to be the worlds largest book store offering. Something brick and mortar book stores couldn't do because of shelf space limitations.
- menzoic 4y agoBooks weren't the end goal. He named it Amazon because he wanted something generic to expand into. I don't think third party sellers were in the initial vision but selling other items was
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y ago> named it Amazon because ... it was "a river of one million books". That was the slogan when it came out to steamroll books.com (the first mover), an outfit from Ohio that sold books on the Internet and shipped without plastic packaging in 1991.