‘They’re letting the fox into the hen house’: How Bezos sold books to start his empire

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'They're letting the fox into the hen house': How Bezos sold books to start his empire

Amazon started as a book retailer and quickly revolutionized publishing. You can learn more about the creation of Amazon, Apple, Google and other tech leaders in the new CNN Original Series "Land of the Giants: Titans of Tech" on CNN+. New episodes available every Thursday.

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A man works at a distrubiton station at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on February 5, 2019. - Inside a huge warehouse on Staten Island thousands of robots are busy distributing thousands of items sold by the giant of online sales, Amazon. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)

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