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The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a 1981 literary and philosophical novella by George Steiner.The story is about Jewish Nazi hunters who find a fictional Adolf Hitler (A.H.) alive in the Amazon jungle thirty years after the end of World War II.
Amazon announced that e-book sales for its Kindle reader outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever. [115] 2011: January: Acquisitions, International: Amazon acquires Lovefilm, a DVD rental service known as the Netflix of Europe. [116] 2011: February 16: Competition: Borders, outcompeted by Amazon, applies for Chapter 11 ...
Amazon.com, Inc., [1] doing business as Amazon (/ ˈ æ m ə z ɒ n /, AM-ə-zon; UK also / ˈ æ m ə z ə n /, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. [5]
If he said today, nobody who is employed at Amazon will receive less than a living wage, it would send a message to every corporation in America." [ 85 ] Sanders's efforts elicited a response from Amazon which pointed to the 130,000 jobs it created in 2017 and called the $28,446 figure for its median salary "misleading" as it included part-time ...
Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1] The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2]
Netflix was not founded after its co-founder Reed Hastings was charged a $40 late fee by Blockbuster. Hastings made the story up to summarize Netflix's value proposition; Netflix's founders were actually inspired by Amazon. [10] PepsiCo in no real sense ever owned the "6th most powerful navy" in the world after a deal with the Soviet Union. In ...
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon is a 2013 bestselling book written by journalist Brad Stone. It documents the rise of Amazon.com in the 1990s, its near demise during the dot-com bust , and its subsequent revival with the inventions of Amazon Prime , the Kindle and Amazon Web Services .
Mein Kampf, Hitler's first book. This bibliography of Adolf Hitler is a list of some non-fiction texts in English written about and by him.. Thousands of books and other texts have been written about him, so this is far from an all-inclusive list: Writing in 2006, Ben Novak, an historian who specializes in Hitler studies, estimated that in 1975 there were more than 50,000 books and scholarly ...