[After all, analysts and investors alike have demanded for months that Amazon.com boost the company's value by selling more than just books and compact discs.] We are interested in anything where we can revolutionize the buying experience, ... Our vision has been to build a place to find anything. |
[In connection with the restructuring, Amazon said it will take a charge against earnings of more than $150 million in the first half of 2001.] No company enjoys making such a decision, and it's always difficult and painful ... But it was clearly the right business decision for us as we pursue making this into a profitable company. |
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well. |
A year from now Barnes & Noble won't even consider us a direct competitor, ... What we're trying to do is invent the future of e-commerce. |
Amazon employees bought a lot of cool stuff as part of the beta program. |
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 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.com is still a small and young company relative to many offline retailers, and we must ensure that we build the strongest customer relationships possible during this critical period, ... In 1999, we expect to invest even more aggressively than we have in the past. |
Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online. |
As the era of Internet sector investing comes to a close, it appears that investors are becoming more discerning about companies on an individual level, something we believe will result in a positive impact on the competitive landscape, |
Competition will accelerate in 1999, ... We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term. |
Competition will accelerate in 1999. We still believe it is impossible to keep the pronounced bookselling market share lead over the long term. |
For the fifth consecutive quarter, we saw substantial improvements in our operations and bottom-line performance, ... Electronics demonstrated especially strong growth and improvements. |
Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded, |
I now believe it's possible that the current rules governing business-method and software patents could end up harming us all, ... despite the call from many thoughtful folks for us to give up our patents unilaterally, I don't believe it would be right for us to do so. |