Amazon.com - Simple English Wikipedia

# Amazon.com

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Amazon.com is an online store that sells books, movies, games, DVDs , music CDs, computer software and other items. It is the largest online store right now. It was started by Jeff Bezos in 1995. The original name was Cadabra.com but was changed to Amazon later on. The store was named after the world's second biggest river.

## [edit] Affiliates

The following are affiliates to Amazon's website.

### [edit] United Kingdom

- Waterstones.co.uk redirects to Amazon.
- Borders.co.uk redirects to Amazon.
- HMV.com redirects to Amazon.
- [1] redirects to Amazon.

### [edit] United States of America

- Waldenbooks.com redirects to Amazon.
- Borders.com redirects to Amazon.
- CDNOW.com redirects to Amazon.

For all of these links, the companies receive referral credit from Amazon.

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