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Amazon.com is the world’s biggest bookshop and is one of the hottest stocks on the US stock market — its sales for the third quarter of 1998 were US$153.7 million (a 306% increase over the corresponding quarter of the previous year) and its profit was negative — a loss of US$21.0 million. In each of the four years since its foundation in 1995 it has returned a loss.
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Whiteley, D. (1999). Internet Commerce — Hot Cakes and Dead Ducks. In: Sudweeks, F., Romm, C.T. (eds) Doing Business on the Internet. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0561-9_2
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