Amazon.com Launches e-Documents Store

Posted on July 20, 2001

Amazon.com announced it has launched an e-documents store. Complementing its book and ebook offerings, e-documents offer customers access to texts such as investor research reports, journal articles, reference material, magazine archives and other research documents. e-documents can be downloaded and on a computer or as printed hard copies.

Amazon.com e-documents store includes research reports on topics including ecommerce, telecommunications technology, investment and marketing strategies, computer programming and media technologies. The store features content from Accenture, AMI Partners, Business Book Review, CIBC World Markets Corp., Faulkner Information Services, Gartner, Inc., Greenfield Online, Giga Information Group, Inc., Harvard Business Review, IDC, Reuters Business Insight, Zona Research and several others.

``Customers want access to timely information and documents while on the Internet. Demand for premium research is at an all-time high, but few places offer a deep online catalog featuring several publishers,'' said Jeff Blackburn, general manager of the Amazon Worldwide Digital Group. ``Through e-documents we can efficiently bring customers a wide selection of non-book digital texts. In addition to market research, we plan to offer downloadable content from vertical markets like education, entertainment, travel and the medical and legal industries. We're just scratching the surface in terms of the types of digital items we can make available for purchase online.''

Amazon.com launched its ebooks store in November 2000 and has since quadrupled its ebook catalog, offering thousands of titles for both Microsoft Reader and the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader. In February 2001 the company introduced its Free Music Downloads community and in March it announced the creation of Amazon Worldwide Digital Group, charged with scaling the company's digital platform across product lines and geographies.