Internet company stocks in general are very volatile, and Amazon is definitely included in that,
We've had three big ideas at Amazon that we've stuck with for 18 years, and they're the reason we're successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.
We invite authors to communicate with their readers in a way that hasn't before been possible. Amazon Connect brings the author's message to the reader instead of waiting for the reader to find the message.
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.
One of the things that I hope will distinguish Amazon.com is that we continue to be a company that defies easy analogy. This requires a lot of innovation, and innovation requires a lot of random walk.
What we want to be is something completely new. There is no physical analog for what Amazon.com is becoming.
Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.
Feel free to cover Amazon any way you want. Feel free to cover Jeff Bezos any way you want.
We're building a unique global platform...In the last 18 months we found that sellers and partners are interested in complementing their online and offline businesses with Amazon's platform
Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing Search Inside the Book technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books.
Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program.