Bruce: Amazon is much broader in its coverage than it was when the GG revision was actually written. The idea of selling Amazon space to others is a powerful one IMO and also the type of products being sold by Amazon itself is rapidly expanding. Cha2
See this on Sandisk for example:
AMAZON.COM ELECTRONICS STORE WILL SELL SANDISK MEMORY CARDS AND CARD READERS
SUNNYVALE, CA, October 14, 1999 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) announced today that the new Amazon.com Electronics Store will sell SanDisk products as accessories to a wide range of consumer electronics devices including digital cameras, internet music players and palm-sized PCs.
The Amazon.com Electronics Store began selling SanDisk CompactFlash™ (CF™), MultiMediaCard, SmartMedia™ and ImageMate™ products today.
"Amazon.com is one of the most popular e-commerce web sites because it is on the cutting-edge of e-commerce," said Rick Dyer, vice president of retail sales at SanDisk. "We believe that Amazon.com will successfully link SanDisk to the MP3 market as well as increase awareness of SanDisk's wide range of products for the digital imaging and handheld PC markets due to their customer profile of early adopters."
CompactFlash memory cards are currently used as photo film cards in over 100 announced digital camera models and as additional memory expansion in more than 60 new handheld PCs. Using SanDisk's ImageMate, consumers have a complete solution for transferring images or data stored on CF cards to the desktop PC or Mac with ease and efficiency. The SanDisk MultiMediaCard is currently being used as storage for digitally compressed MP3 music in over 20 new portable internet music players.
SanDisk Corporation, the world's largest supplier of flash data storage products, designs, manufactures and markets industry-standard, solid-state data, digital imaging and audio storage products using its patented, high density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is based in Sunnyvale, CA.
CompactFlash, CF and ImageMate are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation
SmartMedia is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation
Amazon.com web site/home page address: amazon.com
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