Bezos said in the earnings release that eBooks is a multi-billion dollar category for Amazon and growing fast, up 70% in 2012.
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It's like a grandfather clock on a grander scale, Mr. Bezos said.
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Mr. Bezos said in the interview that the crash didn't deter him.
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Mr Bezos said that part of the reason his strategy worked was that users' appetite for media appeared to grow once they owned one of his devices.
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Bezos said that watching that original mission as a 5-year-old in 1969 inspired him to dream big, and now he wants to undertake the huge challenge of pulling the engines up.
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Later, Bezos said something to Nick Bilton of The New York Times that the entire tech world, including Cupertino and AAPL bulls to the north and south, should pay close attention to.
Bezos has said he wants to lower the cost of space travel.
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Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has said he founded his company in low-population Washington state so sales taxes wouldn't affect customers in bigger states.
Pearlman said Bezos' announcement came as a complete surprise to the space memorabilia world.
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Bezos of course said what he said long before the smartphone and tablets like the Amazon Fire reached the marketplace.
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"We're now seeing the transition we've been expecting, " said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com.
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"We're now seeing the transition we've been expecting, " said Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon.com.
"Kindle Fire introduces a revolutionary new web browser called Amazon Silk, " said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.
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Amazon's chief executive, Jeff Bezos, has often said that a successful e-reader "disappears" when a reader becomes immersed in a book.
"We're grateful to the millions of customers who have made Kindle Fire the most successful product launch in the history of Amazon, " said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.
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"Paperwhite is the Kindle we've always wanted to build - the technology didn't exist to build a display with this level of contrast, resolution, brightness and battery life, so our engineers invented it, " said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.
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Glassybaby's owner, Lee Rhodes, said Mr. Bezos's assistant unexpectedly called her one day to request a meeting.
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An Amazon spokesman said Mr. Bezos thinks Glassybaby has "a great product and a great, missionary founder" but declined to discuss it further.
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"But that fits into the way he does business, " Pearlman said, noting Bezos' other venture into space flight, Blue Origins, which aims to make human space flight cheaper and easier.
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