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Amazon announces the Kindle Fire HD series of touchscreen tablet computers. [127] 2013: March: Acquisitions: Amazon acquires social reading and book-review site GoodReads. [128] 2013: June: International: Amazon launches in India. [129] [130] 2014: July 25: Product: Amazon launches the Amazon Fire. [131] 2014: August 25: Acquisitions
Amazon Academy, formerly JEE Ready, is an online learning platform for engineering students to prepare for competitive exams like the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE), launched by Amazon India on 13 January 2021; Amazon Maritime, Inc. holds a Federal Maritime Commission license to operate as a non-vessel-owning common carrier (NVOCC), which ...
Amazon logo The Amazon Spheres, part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American conglomerate headquartered in Seattle, Washington.Founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994, as an online bookstore, Amazon went public after an initial public offering on May 15, 1997, during the midst of the dot-com bubble. [1]
Local bookstores in the Seattle area described wariness over the physical presence of Amazon.com, with the University Book Store in the U District noting "different spending patterns" two months after the opening of Amazon's store; an Amazon spokesperson dismissed the notion that Amazon Books would interfere with independent bookstores and their operations, stating that "offline retail is a ...
Orlando, Florida — On 16-year-old Jack Hayes' bookshelf you'll find books that may no longer be available in some Florida classrooms, such as the Kurt Vonnegut classic "Slaughterhouse-Five."
The big story: The content of books in Florida schools has come under intense scrutiny. It’s not just the math textbooks adopted by the state. It’s also books on library shelves that are not ...
The book was finally released in India in January 2015. [106] 2010 Such A Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry: On 4 October 2010, this 1990 Booker nominated book was removed from the Bachelor of Arts (English) syllabus of the Mumbai University, after Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena, the student-wing of the Shiv Sena protested. The book allegedly contained ...
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