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This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate...
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"An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happen. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one click. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy...
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"Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A book-lover's paradise? Well, almost ... In these wry and hilarious diaries, Shaun provides an inside look at the trials and tribulations of life in the book trade, from struggles with eccentric customers...
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"In Amazon Unbound, Brad Stone presents a deeply reported, vividly drawn portrait of how a retail upstart became one of the most powerful and feared entities in the global economy. Stone also probes the evolution of Bezos himself-who started as a geeky technologist totally devoted to building Amazon, but who transformed to become a fit, disciplined billionaire with global ambitions; who ruled Amazon with an iron fist, even as he found his personal...
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"The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland is a book lover's paradise, with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the portly bookshop cat. You'd think that after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to his quirky customers by now. Don't get him wrong, there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard train book lovers, people who confuse bookshops for libraries, and the toddlers just...
7) Jeff Bezos
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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730L
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"Engaging images accompany information about Jeff Bezos. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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810L
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Learn who Jeff Bezos is, how he started Amazon, and even how he came up with company's name. Primary sources with accompanying questions, multiple prompts, timeline, index, and glossary also included. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company.
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In a small square on the left bank of the Seine, the door to a green-fronted bookshop beckoned...
With gangsters on his tail and his meager savings in hand, crime reporter Jeremy Mercer fled Canada in 1999 and ended up in Paris. Broke and almost homeless, he found himself invited to a tea party amongst the riffraff of the timeless Left Bank fantasy known as Shakespeare & Co. In its present incarnation, Shakespeare & Co. has become a destination for...
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"This engaging, easy-to-read biography explores the life and accomplishment of a recognizable and influential person from the business world. Teeming with full-color images, fascinating personal facts, and inspiring quotations directly from Jeff Bezos, this books will appeal to researchers looking for age-appropriate sources as well as casual readers in grades 7 and up"--
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