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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 65. Chapters: Amazon Standard Identification Number, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com controversies, Internet Movie Database, Zappos.com, Amie Street, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Sellaband, Woot, Alexa Internet, Audible.com, Amazon MP3, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon S3, LoveFilm, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Three Wolf Moon, AbeBooks, AStore, Amazon Web Services, Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., Shelfari, Amazon Vine, 1-Click, Reflexive Entertainment, PlanetAll, Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Wantitall.co.za, Mobipocket, Carbonado, LibraryThing, A9.com, Songza, Amazon Simple Queue Service, CDNOW, Askville, Amazon Payments, Box Office Mojo, Endless.com, Amazon SimpleDB, Digital Photography Review, Amapedia, The King of Kahel, 43 Things, Statistically Improbable Phrases, Amazon Machine Image, Amazon China, Lab126, Alexa Toolbar, Lexcycle, Looking for... the Best, Amazon Light, Dynamo, AmazonWireless, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, AmazonFresh, Amazon Associates Web Service, Amazon Fishbowl, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Elastic Block Store, Amazon Flexible Payments Service, Amazon Marketplace, Amazon Relational Database Service, Amazon Simple Email Service, Obidos, Gurupa. Excerpt: Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is the world's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc., as of January 2010. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and the site went online in 1995. The company was originally named Cadabra, Inc., but the name was changed when it was discovered that people sometimes heard the name as "Cadaver." The name Amazon.com was chosen because the Amazon River is one of the largest rivers in the world and so the name suggests large size, and also in part ...