Amazon began as an online source for buying books. The very first sale was from the founder Jeff Bezos’ garage near Seattle, Washington. The book was entitled: Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. Amazon founder Jess Bezos is also known for being particularly frugal, a fact which many consider to be a defining reason the company survived hardships in the past.
The tech giant is the largest Internet retailer in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization, and second largest after Alibaba Group in terms of total sales. The Amazon.com website started as an online bookstore and later diversified to sell video downloads/streaming, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. The company also owns a publishing arm, Amazon Publishing, a film and television studio, Amazon Studios, produces consumer electronicslines including Kindle
e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Echo devices, and is the world's largest provider of cloud infrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS) through its AWS subsidiary. Amazon also sells certain low-end products under its in-house brand AmazonBasics.
