Amazon's name recognition in part reflects the site's popularity -- it has more than 1.5 million customers, making it the Web's busiest retail location, according to Media Metrix (music retailer Columbia House Online was second).
The first official recognition of best practice in World Heritage site management will be given to the Historic Town of Vigan (Philippines) on this occasion.
He questions whether it would be fair to celebrate artists only for their album sales when other musicians may not gain the same recognition for having 500, 000 downloads from a Web site.
To cut down on those costs, the USPS created a self-service Web site and set up a phone line with voice-recognition software, either one of which lets users reset passwords on their own.