Summary. Reprint: R0710C Interviewed by Julia Kirby and Thomas A. Stewart Since its founding, in 1995, Amazon.com’s bold moves have often left observers scratching their heads, if not predicting the company’s demise. Why open up an effective proprietary retail platform to competition from third-party sellers? Why make tools that Amazon developed for its own use available to other website developer
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