Sunday, May 18, 2014

From Amazon wikipedia--

Amazon--from Amazon wiki--

"The company was founded in 1994, spurred by what Bezos called his "regret minimization framework", which described his efforts to fend off any regrets for not participating sooner in the Internet business boom during that time.[17] In 1994, Bezos left his employment as vice-president of D. E. Shaw & Co., a Wall Street firm, and moved to Seattle. He began to work on a business plan for what would eventually become Amazon.com.

After reading a report about the future of the Internet which projected annual Web commerce growth at 2,300%, Bezos created a list of 20 products which could be marketed online. He narrowed the list to what he felt were the five most promising products which included: compact discs, computer hardware, computer software, videos, and books. Bezos finally decided that his new business would sell books online, due to the large world-wide demand for literature, the low price points for books, along with the huge number of titles available in print.[18] Amazon[19] was originally founded in Bezos' garage in Bellevue, Washington."

Sorry, the novel's original title was Therese Racquin and here is a 300 page preview--link that works--

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Raquin/7OtMAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1