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Fathoming Amazon

FATHOMING amazon 9THINGS TOKNOW IN 1994, JEFF BEZOS BROUGHT BOOKSELLING ONLINE. And from a tiny garage in Bellevue, WA set off the retailing supernova that recast the way we spend on and offline. Understanding Amazon's reach is like trying to fathom Space. Let's resize this in human terms. 1 AMAZON'S $34 BILLION ANNUAL REVENUES ARE LARGER THAN THE GDPS OF HALF THE COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD 17X 2X SIERRA LEONE $1.9 BN HONDURAS $15.3 BN 6X RWANDA $5.5 BN AMAZON IS THE #1 SELLING E-TAILER IN THE WORLD WEB SALES IN 2010 O WALMART TARGET BUY.COM AMAZON AMAZON WEB SALES ARE FIVE TIMES WALMART, TARGET, AND BUY.COM WEBSALES COMBINED. 3 AMAZON SERVES 137 MILLION CUSTOMERS A WEEK (33% MORE THAN U.S. VOTER TURNOUT FOR THE 2010 ELECTIONS) %3D THIS MEANS AMAZON HAS OVER ... AND THE NUMBER OF AMERICANS ... THE SAME AMOUNT OF PEOPLE AS THE POPULATION OF BEIJING, CHINA... 19.5 MILLION WHO LIVE OFF LESS CUSTOMERS DAILY.. THAN $6K A YEAR. 4 AMAZON'S UNIQUE USERS ARE 5X MORE VALUABLE THAN EBAY'S THE AVERAGE AMOUNT BROUGHT IN BY A UNIQUE USER 1 = 1 DOLLAR $189 $39 AMAZON EBAY AMAZON OWNS 1/10 OF THE NORTH AMERICAN ECOMMERCE PIE AMAZON GETS THEIR OVWN SLICE 1,000+ OTHER RETAILERS ARE OFFICE DEPOT, STAPLES, APPLE, DELL, WALMART, SEAPS & LIBERTY SHARE LEFT TO FIGHT FOR THESE 8 REMAINING SLICES THE SAME SIZED SLICE AS AMAZON 6 IF AMAZON WERE A COUNTRY FOR ACTIVE USERS, IT WOULD BE 2X THE SIZE OF CANADA a WITH 50,000 DAILY PREORDERS, KINDLE FIRE IS SET TO DOUBLE THE LAUNCH OF IPAD Kindle Fire 8 AMAZON'S S3 CLOUD PLATFORM CAN STORE 82 BOOKS FOR EVERY PERSON ON EARTH THAT'S ENOUGH EBOOKS TO SAVE A FOREST 82BOOKS 2X THE SIZE OF OF ALASKA'S TONGASS NATIONAL PARK, THE UNITED STATES' LARGEST FOREST PER PERSON 9 AMAZON'S WAREHOUSES HAVE MORE SQ. FOOTAGE THAN 700 MADISON SQUARE GARDENS 300K 400 SQUARE FEET 1997 SQUARE FEET 2 WARE 1995 HOUSES 25M 1 GARAGE SQUARE FEET 2011 50 WARE HOUSES THEY COULD HOLD MORE WATER THAN 10,000 OLYMPIC POOLS This year, Bezos is selling the $79 Kindle at a $5 loss, and they can afford to. Amazon became an empire providing just about everything faster and cheaper than anyone. Sympathies to the brick and mortars, e-tailers and publishers too slow moving and too late to catch up. END Brought to you by FRUGAL DAD Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29 http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list/ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/amazon.com http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/HowAmazonlsBeatingUpEBay.aspx 5 http://elections.gmu.edu/Turnout_2010 G.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_albums#Over_50_million_copies http://www.webanalyticsworld.net/2011/01/revenue-per-unique-user-amazon-google.html http://www.internetretailer.com/2011/04/26/amazons-north-american-sales-jump-nearly-45-gl http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/10/05/leaked-pre-order-figures-show-kindle-fire-outpacing-ipad/ 12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden http://www.internetretailer.com/commentary/2010/08/31/amazons-secret-european-weapon-square-footage assume 40ft height http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool ,http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article- 560113/Online-retailer-Amazon-opens-largest-warehouse-Britain--size-football-pitches.html http://www.siliconrepublic.com/cloud/item/23894-amazon-s3-statistics-more assume 12 oz book, 24 trees/ton paper, 150 trees/acre (http://conservatree.org/learn/Envirolssues/TreeStats.shtml) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongass_National_Forest http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396248,00.asp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing http://www.thenation.com/article/159381/us-poverty-past-present-and-future

Fathoming Amazon

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In 1994, Jeff Bezos brought bookselling online. And from a tiny garage in Bellevue, Wa, set off the retailing supernova that recast the way we spend on and offline. Understanding Amazon's reach is lik...

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