Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190304:03:22:00
July 16th, 1995. >> a lot of people were thinking at the time that e-commerce was a very small channel in the adoption of it from a customer standpoint would be slow and fairly minimal. i had my questions about the business model and, you know, how viable was it? >> within 30 days and with no advertising other than word of mouth, amazon.com had sold books in all 50 states and 45 countries, catching jeff and mckenzie completely off guard. >> amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order then he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and then j...