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AMAZON is an online book store. You can order books through the Internet at Amazon's website which has thousands of books of all kinds available, giving you plenty of choice! You can get Amazon to search for any book you'd care to name, either by title or by author. It might be in stock. The Amazon website is quite clever and makes helpful suggestions about books you might be interested in. You can also have a personal Amazon Wish List if you like, to put in advance requests for books which might become available.

Amazon have variants of the website for different localities, which probably helps with the delivery arrangements. So, if you'd like to pay in GB Pounds, there's Amazon.co.uk and if you'd like to pay in US Dollars there's Amazon.com , but you can buy form either and sort out the shipping. They're very helpful at Amazon.

Amazon was one of the first Internet based companies to apply the bright idea of giving commission to people putting the good word in for them. (affiliates). If you'd like to help Amazon to sell books, visit Amazon's website and look up "Associate Program".

The Amazon Book Shop makes good sense from a business perspective because it's run mostly in the virtual world and saves on expenses associated with maintaining shop buildings.

Another thing about Amazon is that you can write reviews about the books and post them online to help other people to decide if a particular book would be right for them. Imagine if a physical world book store allowed this: You'd be able to have little notes pinned on the shelves by folk telling you what they thought of the books.

Since Amazon began many years ago the range of stuff on sale has expanded, so now as well as books, music CDs, magazines, video DVDs, and computer games, there are now other things such as cellphones, musical instruments, clothes, electronics, shoes, office equipment, toys, sports equipment, furniture, pet supplies, hardware, cosmetics, jewellery, gourmet food, cameras, watches, automotive items, and there's even "The Imaginarium" - sounds intriguing, doesn't it?

If you have been tempted by this, here's the link:

Link here to go to AMAZON.COM USA

Link here to go to AMAZON.CO.UK

The associate program of Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com is one of the longest standing independent affiliate programs on the Internet, and Amazon used to have a special arrangement with Toys R Us

If you receive an e-mail asking you to VERIFY YOUR IDENTITY with Amazon, it's most likely a hoax! See Amazon Hoax Message - not from Amazon!