How Amazon Works

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� What Amazon?

� Amazon.com Basics

� Amazon Technology

� Amazon E-commerce

� Amazon Tools, Marketing and Community

What Amazon? In 1995, Amazon.com sold its first book, which shipped from Jeff Bezos' garage in Seattle.

In 2006, Amazon.com sells a lot more than books and has sites serving seven countries, with 21 fulfillment centers around the globe totaling more than 9 million square feet of warehouse space. The story is an e-commerce dream, and Jeff Bezos was Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

Amazon.com Basics Amazon.com sells

lots and lots of stuff. (clothing, jewelry, gourmet food, sporting goods, pet supplies, books, DVDs, bedding and almost anything)

When you arrive at the homepage, you'll find not only special offers and featured products, but if you've been to Amazon.com before, you'll also find some recommendations just for you.

Amazon Technology �  Data warehouses is divided into three major functions.

�  Amazon security is Automatically encrypt the credit card number during the checkout process and Amazon User is your name, address, such as gender, they will be able to choose to encrypt all of the parts of the information you entered.

�  Amazon employs

the Netscape Secure Commerce

Server using the SSL protocol.

Amazon E-commerce �  Amazon is going to sell with its own warehouse.

Amazon is, basically using Amazon.com as an auxiliary outlet for their online sales, it has leased the space to these retailers.

�  Individuals please visit the Amazon Marketplace, Amazon zShops and Amazon auctions. Amazon zShops only features that are using the commodity at a fixed price.

�  Through Amazon's Associate program, if there is a Web site, anyone post a link to Amazon.com, you can make money.

Amazon Tools, Marketing and Community

�  The level of customer tracking at Amazon.com is another best-of-breed system.

�  What the customer is required to be expected from previous results, it is recommended Amazon Services is a complete e-commerce solution for leave Amazon has opened the possibility that will toward the direction of the technical services that ultimately more than retail sales, is a potential Amazon competitors company We have built.