Quotes about amazoncom (16 Quotes)



    We try to be a pure investment and a long-term decision making company. No company cares more about profitability than Amazon.com. But I also want to make the most of our opportunity and we would hate to be short-sighted about that,

    Amazon Shorts will help authors find new readers and help readers find and discover authors they'll love. We hope that by making short-form literature widely and easily available, Amazon.com can help to fuel a revival of this kind of work.

    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.

    We think it's a great investment to make in our customers. We figure that this is great for people who are current customers of Amazon.com and it will keep them happy with us. And we also think there's a lot of goodwill in terms of encouraging other people to come try out Amazon.com.


    This was our fastest sequential growth as a public company, and we are grateful that so many customers chose Amazon.com for such a broad range of products,

    In theory, in order for free shipping offers to be successful, the company would have to generate enough incremental revenue and contribution profit to pay for the cost of the shipping promotion. However, we believe Amazon.com has consistently failed to generate anywhere near the amount of incremental revenue and profit needed to pay for the lost shipping fees.

    I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being.

    (Google and Amazon.com) are giving away exactly what we are selling. There is no business that can survive if someone comes along and gives away their product.

    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.

    Companies don't want to give out information about where their employees are surfing. Microsoft was not pleased when Amazon.com showed the top book picks by its employees.

    We strongly disagree with the judge's ruling in this case. Regardless of today's decision, Amazon.com is still committed to providing a great selection of toys at great prices for our customers.


    I just got the retail box that has our David software in it. This box is in all the software stores in Japan and Amazon.com . We will soon be all over China and Korea.

    I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.




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