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Q: Amazon.com and Music CD sales online ( Answered 5 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Amazon.com and Music CD sales online
Category: Business and Money > eCommerce
Asked by: mscully-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 26 Feb 2005 15:34 PST
Expires: 28 Mar 2005 15:34 PST
Question ID: 481510
Could you tell me when Amazon.com first started selling CDs through its web site?
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Subject: Re: Amazon.com and Music CD sales online
Answered By: markj-ga on 26 Feb 2005 15:52 PST
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
mscully --

The answer is June 11, 1998.


The year-by-year timeline in Table 3 on page 13 of the attached PDF
document is the authoritative source of that information:

"11th June 1998 - Music store opens at Amazon.com"

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis: "Finding the Source of the
Amazon.com - Examining the Hype of the Earth's Biggest Bookstore," by
Martin Dodge
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/amazon.pdf

(The above is a PDF document that requires Adobe Reader to access.  In
the unlikely event that this tool is not installed on your computer,
you can conveniently download it at no charge from this site):

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html



Search Strategy:


The following Google search uncovered the information:

amazon.com bezos timeline music
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLB,GGLB:1969-53,GGLB:en&q=amazon%2Ecom+bezos+timeline+music


I am confident that this is exactly what you are looking for, and I
happy to be able to get it to you promptly.  If anything is unclear,
please ask for clarification before rating the answer.


markj-ga
mscully-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $1.00
Excellent! Thank You!

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Subject: Re: Amazon.com and Music CD sales online
From: markj-ga on 26 Feb 2005 16:39 PST
 
mscully --

You're quite welcome, and thank you for the five stars and the tip.

markj-ga

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