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...STOCK PRICES OF EBAY, YAHOO! AND AMAZON HAVE ALL BEEN OFF THIS YEAR, WHILE GOOGLE'S STOCK HAS SHOT THROUGH THE ROOF. YOUR THOUGHTS? This is a big world, and there are going to be lots of winners. Others don't have to lose for us to win. We stay heads down, focused on what we know will help us build a lasting company that improves customers' lives. Wall Street doesn't like us lowering prices, and we don't care...
...AMAZON JUST BOUGHT A CUSTOM-PUBLISHING FIRM. ANY CHANCE YOU'LL DO YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND PUT IT OUT YOURSELF? Wait and see. It's still chapter one for Amazon. I think there'll be more happening on the Internet over the next 10 years than in the last 10. Over the next decade, the raw materials--technology, computers, disc space, bandwidth--will get cheaper and more powerful at a very rapid rate. Our job is to figure out how to layer invention on top of those raw materials to make things that actually matter to people...
...HAVE BEEN SHOWING SHORT MOVIES ON AMAZON. WHAT'S THE LONG-TERM PLAN FOR AMAZON AND VIDEO DELIVERY? Over time it may be possible to do high-quality video delivery over the Internet. It's something we've thought about for years, but most people don't have the kind of bandwidth they'd need to get full-length motion pictures delivered...
EBAY SELLS CARS, AND OTHER SITES SELL REAL ESTATE. ANY CHANCE AMAZON WILL MOVE INTO THOSE REALLY EXPENSIVE ITEMS? Who knows? We've got so much green field on so many potential categories that can be entered into. We sell a lot of high-ticket items. We sell diamonds that cost thousands of dollars and $8,000 plasma TVs. There doesn't seem to be any resistance, and in fact those high-priced items are growing very rapidly as a percentage of our sales...
WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL BE AMAZON'S BIGGEST GIFT ITEM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON? One of our top gift items is the Philips HeartStart defibrillator. Defibrillators will continue to get cheaper and end up as a very common piece of household equipment, much like a fire extinguisher...