Amazon.com Books named Premier Web Bookseller; site joins Internet's best in PC Magazine's Top 10 Commercial Sites.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Amazon.com Books, a virtual bookstore offering more than 1 million titles, has again dazzled daz·zle v. daz·zled, daz·zling, daz·zles v.tr. 1. To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light. 2. industry watchdogs with its impressive selection of books and award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" search features. As part of its Top 100 Web Sites list, PC Magazine recently named Amazon.com Books as one of the 10 best commercial sites in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. , making Amazon.com the only on-line bookseller recognized by the widely-read computer magazine. The PC Magazine Top 100 Web Sites list, updated continuously, selects worthwhile home pages as a service to the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the community. With a new Web site coming on-line nearly every 60 seconds, making the PC Magazine Top 100 list is quite an accomplishment. Amazon.com Books joins such cyberspace notables as Time Magazine, Lycos, Yahoo, and the Library of Congress on PC Magazine's hot list. In its review of Amazon.com, PC Magazine applauded the virtual bookstore's comprehensive search features, and described Amazon.com as a "bibliophile's dream." In addition to earning a place on PC Magazine's Top 100 list, Amazon.com Books has received accolades on The Point Survey, Yahoo's What's Cool List and Netscape's What's New List. In its first month of operation, Amazon.com filled book orders from all 50 states and 45 countries. Amazon.com operates from headquarters in Seattle. The company maintains a staff of programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions. See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists , editors, executives, and all-around book lovers. Amazon.com's URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. is http://www.amazon.com/. PC Magazine and the PC Magazine Top 100 list are at http://www.zdnet.com/. CONTACT: WHaM Communications Pete Pedersen, 206/223-1606 |
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