What is the story of the Internet and Amazon Bookstore?

Jeffrey Bezos, a 29-year-old descendant of Cuban immigrants living in New York, saw a statistic one day - the Internet's growth rate is as high as 2,300% per year. Suddenly In the meantime, his eyes were bright and a sudden inspiration came to him. He couldn't wait to quit the excellent job he had, moved his family to Seattle, chose to start a business, and opened an online bookstore-Amazon Bookstore.

Amazon Bookstore clearly explains the purpose of the company's establishment on its website, which is to "set up a customer-oriented bookstore on the Internet to facilitate customers to roam online and provide the most diverse choices possible." . The company's stated mission is to provide sales of products that educate, inform and inspire through online services. The company named "Amazon" because it hopes to be the biggest and best in line with the Amazon River, the largest river in the world.

There are rows of stores where people can buy various items through their computers at home

Unlike traditional bookstores, Bezos does not need to rent a store. After recruiting four programmers, , began writing programs for Amazon operations in his garage. In July 1995, Amazon Bookstore sold its first book.

As a virtual store, book sales are booming, with annual sales reaching hundreds of millions of dollars, and book-buying subscribers all over the world. The bookstore is open 24 hours a day, eliminating the need for customers to travel and work hard, and avoiding the crowds and noise of bookstores. Customers can search for the books they need in Amazon's database by title, author, subject or keywords. The database is quite large, including more than 2.5 million titles, which is unimaginable in traditional bookstores that arrange books on shelves. After a customer decides to buy a book, they can fill out an order online and indicate whether they want a hardcover or a paperback, whether they need gift packaging, and what the delivery method is. Payment can be made using a variety of credit cards, and transaction information is encrypted and transmitted online, ensuring security. At the same time, Amazon notified publishers or book distributors to send customers' purchased books to its warehouses in Seattle and then shipped them. Typically, customers get their books within five days of placing their order. If you're willing to pay a surcharge, you can get the book within a day or two.