Why should the corner bookstore be taxed, they ask, when an online bookseller gets to hawk their wares virtually tax free?
Starting in November, the high-tech company will compete with online bookseller Amazon.com.
During the 1990s, he started Fatbrain.com , an online bookseller of professional and technical titles (he sold the company to barnesandnoble.com in 2000).
Those reports almost without exception cite online bookseller Amazon.com -- which Bezos launched in July 1995 -- as living proof that Internet retailing works.
Meanwhile, online bookseller Amazon.com Inc. views the technology as not yet "ready for prime time, " according to Bill Curry, director of Amazon.com's public relations.
Amazon has transcended from an online bookseller to a platform company.
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Nguyen Thanh Van An, 37, is the chief executive and founder of Internet bookstore Vinabook.com, a clone of China's online bookseller Dangdang.com--itself a version of Amazon.
Amazon.com, an online bookseller, recommends books to customers based on past choices. 1-800 Flowers will keep a list of important birthdays for you and even remind you of what you bought last time.
Amazon started as an online bookseller.
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The ability to integrate computing and communications functions will be vital as the PC industry stagnates and the market for smartphones and tablets is turning into a battle royale that has sucked in everyone from PC software titan Microsoft and online bookseller Amazon to search advertising titan Google, Korean tech conglomerate Samsung, and, of course, Apple.
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Abebooks, the world's largest online used-bookseller, found that Agitator's performance reports changed their programmers' behavior.
Separately, the firm also announced a link-up with Borders, in which Amazon will take over its rival bookseller's online operations.
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