Re: UKNM: Re: Amazon.com... HOW MUCH???

[Tony Bowden]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 12:10:52AM -0000, Charlie Osmond wrote:

> In terms of ball park I think it is about �10m for a set up like Amazon

and

> probably the same again each year thereafter.

> This is roughly the figure I saw in a Forrester report about 12 months ago

> so you may need to double (or treble) it.


Erm ...


Since launch, according to their SEC filings Amazon have spent, just

over $420 million on "technology and content".


(And just over $1 billion now on "sales and marketing", which includes

their distribution costs...)


Tony

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