Amazon (company)

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Amazon.com is one of the first major retail stores to be founded prinamarily for online mail-order sales over the Internet. Founded in 1995 during the early days of the explosion of the online popularity of the Internet, the company initially began as an online bookstore, and it is still best known as a book retailer today. The company quickly began expanding, howerver, branching off into retail sales of music CDs, videos and DVDs, and software.

The company bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) in 1996, a move that upset a number of long-time users of the database; the transformation of IMDB from a public-domain, nonprofit site to a commercial venture was seen as a slap in the face to many Internet users. However, the IMDB has continued to grow and prosper.

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http://www.amazon.com