Amazon To Sell Software Home Improvement Gifts
Martin Burns
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Amazon has announced that it is to create sites to sell computer games, other software, home improvement and an expanded gifts area. It is planning to be up and running in time for the Christmas season, and has already announced a major media spend to gain further market share as an online retailer.
Rumours ran riot in advance of today's announcement.
Yesterday Amazon put out an advisory notice that it would "make a significant announcement regarding additions to its product line that will impact the competitive landscape of online shopping."
Speculation had centered around possible deals with Beyond to distribute software and Black&Decker to sell power tools.
Amazon's stock closed up nearly 17% last night.
More information at the BBC.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
