Jeff Bezos founded online retail giant Amazon in 1994. The original Amazon website launched shortly afterwards in 1995. Today Amazon is a very successful business and is probably one of the most trusted and recognisable brands in the world. It's easy to overlook just what a radical concept ordering books on the internet and then receiving them by mail was at the time. There was no shortage of business analysts and investors who forecast that Amazon would struggle - and it wasn't until the end of 2001 that Amazon reported their first ever profits. Read more »
Why You Should Publish A Kindle Edition Of Your Next E-Book
E-books are, for many Internet marketers, a key element in their online business efforts. Most online marketers - acting as either an affiliate or an author - will have sold, or possibly given away as a bonus - e-books at some time. Read more »
The Future Of The Amazon Kindle Reader
The Amazon Kindle e-book reader has clearly secured a market leadership position for itself. It has a 60% share of America's growing e-book reader market - Sony's PRS reader trails in second place with a 35% share - and both the Kindle 2.0 and its larger sibling, the DX, are now being sold worldwide. The fact that every new e-book reader which is unveiled is dubbed the "Kindle Killer" only serves to confirm that, not only is the Kindle the dominant market player, it is the standard which any new competing readers will be measured against. Read more »
