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Amazon acquires Joyo, an online bookstore in China, for $75 million, which then becomes the 7th regional website of Amazon.com. joyo later becomes Amazon China. [105] 2005: February: Product: Amazon launches Amazon Prime, a membership offering free two-day shipping within the contiguous United States on all eligible purchases for a flat annual ...
Amazon websites are country-specific (for example, amazon.com for the US and amazon.co.uk for UK) though some offer international shipping. [51] Visits to amazon.com grew from 615 million annual visitors in 2008, [52] to more than 2 billion per month in 2022. [citation needed] The e-commerce platform is the 12th most visited website in the ...
A story generator or plot generator is a tool that generates basic narratives or plot ideas. The generator could be in the form of a computer program, a chart with multiple columns, a book composed of panels that flip independently of one another, or a set of several adjacent reels that spin independently of one another, allowing a user to select elements of a narrative plot.
Amazon Storywriter was a free cloud-based screenwriting app [1] launched by Amazon in 2015. [2] Storywriter provided automatic formatting for screenplays on the Master Scene Standard. [ citation needed ] The app allowed original screenplays to be submitted to Amazon Studios for production consideration until April 2018 when submissions were closed.
Storyland is a browser-based narrative work of electronic literature.The project is included in the first Electronic Literature Collection. [1] It was created by Nanette Wylde in 2000 and is considered a form of Combinatory Narrative or Generative Poetry which is created with the use of the computer's random function.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (/ ˈ b eɪ z oʊ s / BAY-zohss; [2] né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman best known as the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company.
The Amazon Queen Thalestris in the camp of Alexander the Great, Johann Georg Platzer. Amazons are also mentioned by biographers of Alexander the Great, who report of Queen Thalestris bearing him a child (a story in the Alexander Romance). [49] However, other biographers of Alexander dispute the claim, including the highly regarded Plutarch.
The Amazon Orana from Wonder Woman (vol. 1) #250–251 (December 1978 – January 1979). In this story, the Amazon Orana challenged Diana to a tournament to claim the title of Wonder Woman. She was successful, but her arrogance brought about her death shortly into her reign. Like Artemis, Orana was a fiery redheaded Amazon who died as Wonder Woman.