Total	$550M
SnapTell, 6/09
Lexcycle, 4/09
Reflexive Entertainment, 10/08
Shelfari, 8/08
AbeBooks, 8/08
Fabric.com, 6/08
Audible, 1/08	$300M
dpreview, 5/07
TextPayMe, 2007
Alexa, 4/99	$250M
IMDB, 1998

Investments

Animoto	6/09
BookTour	4/09
Foodista	4/09
Yieldex	2/09
Elastra	8/08
Engine Yard	7/08
The Talk Market	6/08
Woot	1/08
Bill Me Later	12/07
Amie Street	8/07
Shelfari	2/07
Wikia	12/06
delicious	4/05
43 Things, The Robot Co-op	11/04

Competitors

eMusic, PowerReviews, Bazaarvoice, Vudu, Sazze, Epinions, Infibeam, Elastra, Netflix, MyFab, The Auteurs, GoGrid, SmilesIncluded, Alice.com, Pronto

Service Providers

OutCast Communications

Amazon

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN) is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide. Amazon directly sells, or acts as a platform for the sale of, a very broad range of products, including books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s sales are products sold by Amazon, with the remaining amount from third-party sellers. Through year-end 2006, Amazon had approximately 64 million active customers worldwide. In 2006, 55% of Amazon’s revenue was generated in North America and 45% was generated by its International segment. Within North America, Media was 61% of total sales, Electronics & General Merchandise (EGM) was 34% of the total, and Other revenue was 4%. Within its International segment, Media was 72% of sales and EGM was 28% of sales. Amazon has direct operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Amazon is an online shopping website with one of the largest product supplies online. It was one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them all in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies.

Since 2004 Amazon has begun rapidly expanding its web services arsenal. Products such as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage System), have been large success.

Prior to these services Amazon had survived on a low margin business model that relied on enormous volume in product sales. Amazon is looking to these services to provide a healthier profit margin.

Videos

Amazon Mobile iPhone App Review - AppVee.com

Screenshots

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Uploaded: 5/10/09

Products

Amazon BookSurge

Amazon EBS

Amazon EC2

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Amazon Video on Demand

Amazon Web Services

Mechanical Turk

Stock Price

View the full AMZN chart at Wikinvest

Traffic Analytics

Quantcast

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Comments

Rabbit Hutches Specialist - April 14, 2009 at 3:12am

Amazon has developed full force and I think it shows great determination to take on a giant such as Ebay, but they started with an idea like all of us.

D. E. Graham - January 28, 2009 at 1:36pm

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am a published author, published through Publish America. My books have been listed on your site since 2004. I have noticed however that the prices listed for my book, "Circles of Blue", are outragously higher than normal. I know that this move can only result in no sales. I have added services to promote my books through Amazon, such as, search inside the book, and paid addition monies for these services, however with the books listed at the prices you have them listed at, these promotional services will not help to sell my books. I understand that you have had misunderstandings with Publish America in the past, but these misunderstandings shouldn't result in hurting their authors by boycotting their books. I have promoted my books using Amazon.com as a way for others to purchase, but now I can no longer do this because of your pricing. Could you please put an end to this and price my books as they would normally be? Sincerely, Dora E. Graham

PuReWebDev - November 26, 2008 at 4:17pm

Amazon is far more then a retailer, and with the addition of all the new web services they've added, they continue to show that just because you are on top, doesn't mean you are done. I believe they will make eBay extinct in the years to come.

Website Promotion Expert - September 4, 2008 at 3:55pm

What is most surprising about Amazon is how it take on Ebay as one of the best online shopping store in the Net