Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezosis an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth12 January 1964
CityAlbuquerque, NM
CountryUnited States of America
Ultimately publishers and copyright holders will get to make those decisions about how much those pages cost,
We're standing behind the transaction with our own pocketbook,
To our customers around the world--thank you. We are grateful to our customers for shopping with us this holiday season and we wish everyone a happy new year.
We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.
We believe that over time this could turn into a significant business for Amazon, significant revenue stream for publishers and authors and a helpful customer service for readers,
What I can tell you is in the first few weeks of this quarter...we are continuing to see good books unit growth,
When there's uncertainty in the economy, people get very rational about their spending.
E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.
If we can keep our competitors focused on us while we stay focused on the customer, ultimately we'll turn out all right.
With this launch, our goal is to give customers the Amazon.com experience -- everything from one-click shopping and helpful information to the high level of customer service we traditionally provide -- in the two important categories of toys and electronics.
We are very grateful to our customers for choosing Amazon.com as their online music store so quickly. We work hard to earn the confidence of our customers.
The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.
Ultimately for each individual book, pricing will be up to the copyright holders, ... The copyright holders are the ones who get to make these decisions.