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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by tppiotrowski on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:31PM (#31747318)
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.
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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by menzoic on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @07:48PM (#31747463)
Books 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
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Re:Amazon builds property empire, quietly buying land across... by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @08:03PM (#31747587)
> 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.

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