Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190218:02:22:00
July 16, 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, you know, 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 mackenzie completely off guard. >> amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and ...