Davida G. Breier’s publishing story is certainly one for the books. Here she discusses how, as a books distributor, she ended up selling her debut novel.
july 16th, 1995. a lot of people were thinking at the time that e-commerce was a very small channel in the adoption of it from a customer standpoint would be slow and fairly minimal. i had my questions about the business model and, you know, how viable was it? within 30 days and with no advertising other than word of mouth, amazon.com had sold books in all 50 states and 45 countries, catching jeff and mckenzie completely off guard. amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order then he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and then jeff would reship it. bezos was quickly outgrowing his garage set up and moved into the bigger office space with a
july 16, 1995. a lot of people were thinking at the time that e commerce was a very small channel in the adoption of it from a customer standpoint would be, you know, slow and fairly minimal. i had my questions about the business model and, you know, how viable was it. within 30 days and with no advertising other than word of mouth amazon.com had sold books in all 50 states and 45 countries catching jeff and mackenzie completely off guard. amazon at the beginning had no inventory. once he got an order he would contact the book distributor and have them ship the book to seattle and then jeff would reship it. bezos was quickly outgrowing his garage setup and moved into a bigger office space with a large warehouse a few blocks away. he drove his growing team at a