Amazon.com Launches Honor System That Lets Visitors Contribute to Favorite Web Sites.Business Editors and Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2001 Service Enables Site Fans to Make Voluntary Payments to Support Frequented Sites and to Access Premium Online Content Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Seattle, WA, www.amazon.com) The largest online shopping site and one of the most widely known e-commerce sites on the Web. Founded by Jeff Bezos in 1995, it had 11 employees by year's end. Within four years, it had more than 1,600 employees and four million customers. (Nasdaq:AMZN AMZN Amazon.com (NASDAQ symbol) ) today announced the launch of the Amazon Amazon, in Greek mythology Amazon (ăm`əzŏn), in Greek mythology, one of a tribe of warlike women who lived in Asia Minor. Honor System honor system n. A set of procedures under which persons, especially students or prisoners, are trusted to act without direct supervision in situations that might allow for dishonest behavior. Noun 1. (http://www.amazon.com/honor). The Amazon Honor System enables online visitors to easily "tip" their favorite Web sites or to pay for access to premium content. Based on Amazon.com's 1-Click shopping technology, the Amazon Honor System is a safe and easy way for fans of Web sites to give as little as $1 with a simple click of the mouse. In addition, Web sites can sell access -- on the Honor System -- to online or downloadable content such as video, music or textual tex·tu·al adj. Of, relating to, or conforming to a text. tex  tu·al·ly adv. material including news, poetry,
short stories, commentaries and literature. Any Web site can sign up for
this service and begin collecting contributions in less than 15 minutes.
To learn how, go to http://www.amazon.com/honor.People are realizing that even the best Web sites need new sources of revenue to flourish. Web users want to support the sites they love, but it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have been too difficult. Until today, if you wanted to give a dollar to your favorite Web site, you'd you'd 1. Contraction of you had. 2. Contraction of you would. you'd you had or you would you'd have ~would have to pull out your checkbook, write a check, address an envelope (1) A range of frequencies for a particular operation. (2) A group of bits or items that is packaged and treated as a single unit. (3) See also pushing the envelope. , lick lick 1. a stroke with the tongue, normally used in cleaning the coat or ingesting a substance from a flat surface. See also licking. 2. a mixture of salt plus other macro-elements, especially phosphorus, trace elements, vitamins and other feed additives, fed loosely in a box a stamp, and drop it in the mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). . Now, the Amazon Honor System makes it safe and easy for customers to express their appreciation to their favorite Web sites in seconds. More significantly, voluntary payments from customers will enable participating sites to continue providing quality content that will delight Delight means happiness and may refer to someone or something that brings such a state, such as good-tasting food. It may also refer to : Foods and beverages
"People want to support the sites they love -- the Amazon Honor System makes it safe and easy," said Amazon.com founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Jeff Bezos Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 , Albuquerque ) is the founder, president, chief executive officer, and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. . "Now, any Web site can effortlessly ef·fort·less adj. Calling for, requiring, or showing little or no effort. See Synonyms at easy. ef fort·less·ly adv. collect money from appreciative users. Over
time, we hope this will be even more successful than our Associates
program, which now has over 600,000 participating Web sites."The Amazon Honor System is open to any Web site, and registration takes only minutes. Launch partners include a diverse group of more than 50 Web sites, offering everything from humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was and poetry to recipes Recipes by category Albanian cuisine
-- http://www.adcritic.com/ -- the leading online destination for TV commercials -- http://www.chank.com/ -- an archive of original fonts that are offered for sale and for free -- http://www.indigenousrocks.co m/ -- a selection of blues from a band of Sioux siblings -- http://www.satirewire.com/ -- an award-winning humor site satirizing the new economy -- http://www.seti.org/ -- an institute that searches for extraterrestrial intelligence [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] "It takes an Amazon.com -- with its trusted brand and millions of successful transactions -- to bring the benefits of 1-Click contributions to Web sites of all shapes and sizes," said Chank Chank´ n. 1. (Zool.) The East Indian name for the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank shell ltname>. Diesel, president and CEO of Chank.com. "With the Amazon Honor System, sites like mine have the ability to continue providing innovative and creative content to our fans and customers." When visiting a Web site that participates in the Amazon Honor System, visitors are greeted with a paybox featuring a "Click to pay" or "Click to give" button. All transactions are private and secure, and no information relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the customer is provided to any participating site. Customers can also take advantage of a full and unconditional HEIR, UNCONDITIONAL. A term used in the civil law, adopted by the Civil Code of Louisiana. Unconditional heirs are those who inherit without any reservation, or without making an inventory, whether their acceptance be express or tacit. Civ. Code of Lo. art. 878. UNCONDITIONAL. money-back guarantee up to 30 days after payment by using Amazon.com's innovative Unpay Un`pay´ v. t. 1. To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment. feature, which provides no-questions-asked refunds. The Amazon Honor System does not charge any registration or set-up fees to participating Web sites, and there is no processing charge to visitors who make payments via the Amazon Honor System. Participating sites are charged a fee per transaction. For more information on how to join the Amazon Honor System, visit http://www.amazon.com/honor. (List of Web sites participating at launch follows.) About Amazon.com Amazon.com (Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries) is the Internet's No. 1 retailer. Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July July: see month. 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection, along with online auctions and free electronic greeting cards See e-card. . Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Amazon.com lists more than 28 million unique items in categories such as electronics, kitchen products, books, music, DVDs, videos, camera and photo items, toys, software, computer and video games This article is about the British magazine covering computer and video games. For the American magazine, see Computer Games Magazine. Computer And Video Games (CVG , tools and hardware, lawn and patio patio In Spanish and Latin American architecture, a courtyard open to the sky within a building. A Spanish development of the Roman atrium, it is comparable to the Italian cortile but provides more seclusion, possibly due to Moorish custom. The patio of the contemporary U.S. items, and wireless products. Through Amazon.com zShops, any business or individual can sell virtually anything to Amazon.com's 30 million cumulative customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, sellers can accept credit card transactions, avoiding the hassles of offline (1) Not connected to the Internet, online service or internal network. See offline file. (2) Not connected to or not installed in the computer. If a terminal, printer or other device is physically connected to the computer, but is not turned on or in ready mode, it is payments. Amazon.com operates four international Web sites: www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de and www.amazon.co.jp. It also operates 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 Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 250,000 movies and entertainment titles and 1 million cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1891 to 2003. Amazon Anywhere is the leader in mobile e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. , providing access from anywhere in the world to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and through handheld handheld: see personal digital assistant. wireless Internet devices that use HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) A specialized version of HTML designed to enable wireless pagers, cellphones and other handheld devices to obtain information from Web pages. HDML was developed by Phone. or the Wireless Application Protocol. This announcement contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, significant amount of indebtedness INDEBTEDNESS. The state, of being in debt, without regard to the ability or inability of the party to pay the same. See 1 Story, Eq. 343; 2 Hill. Ab. 421. 2. , unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, consumer trends, competition, risk of distribution center expansion, risks related to fourth quarter performance, risks of system interruption INTERRUPTION. The effect of some act or circumstance which stops the course of a prescription or act of limitation's. 2. Interruption of the use of a thing is natural or civil. , management of potential growth, inventory risks, risks related to auction and zShops services, risks related to fraud and Amazon.com Payments, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, strategic alliances and the Amazon Commerce Network. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. and 10-K/A for the year ended December December: see month. 31, 1999, and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. for the quarters ended March 31, 2000, June June: see month. 30, 2000, and September September: see month. 30, 2000.
Participating Web Sites at Launch
Amazon Honor System
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LINKS SITE DESCRIPTION
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http://www.westnet.com/~crywalt/pregnancy/ "It's Just Another Baby"
-- pregnancy journal
by Chris Rywalt
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http://www.adcritic.com/ AdCritic.com -- all ads,
all the time
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http://www.adventuredivas.com/ Adventure Divas --
adventure travel for
modern-day heroines
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http://www.allfree.com/ AllFree.com -- a guide to
free stuff
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http://www.allmath.com/ AllMath.com -- accessible
math knowledge
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http://www.allwords.com/ AllWords.com -- quotes,
dictionaries, word games
and more
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http://apple-corps.westnet.com/ Apple Corps -- an online
vegetarian toy
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http://www.bartleby.com/ Bartleby.com -- online
literary reference
materials
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http://www.bbspot.com/ Bbspot -- a source for
tech humor
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http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/ BedandBreakfast.com --
information about
bed-and-breakfasts and
inns
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http://www.chank.com/ Chank.com -- downloadable
fonts
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http://www.crankycritic.com/ Cranky Critic -- brutally
honest film reviews
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http://www.equipped.com/ Doug Ritter's Equipped to
Survive -- survival gear
and techniques
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http://www.emagazine.com/ emagazine.com -- a
service of the
E/Environmental Magazine
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http://www.emule.com/ eMule.com -- poetry
archives
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http://www.evote.com/ Evote.com -- keeping
score in the game of
politics
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http://www.funnymail.com/ FunnyMail.com -- jokes,
fun and humor
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http://www.guitar.net/ Guitar.net -- all things
guitar
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http://www.hearingvoices.com/ HearingVoices.com --
audio museum of radio
programs
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http://www.heroicstories.com/ HeroicStories -- true
stories of everyday real
people
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http://www.icebox.com/Index.asp Icebox -- original
animated entertainment
programming
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http://www.indigenousrocks.com/ Indigenous -- a sampling
of blues from a band of
Sioux siblings
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http://www.imdb.com/ Internet Movie Database
-- the definitive movie
site
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http://www.useit.com/ Jakob Nielsen's Web site
-- biweekly column on Web
usability
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http://www.jibjab.com/ JibJab.com -- irreverent
animation
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http://www.kidsource.com/ KidSource -- education
and health care
information for parents
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http://www.killfrog.com/ KillFrog.com --
animation, comics and
games
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http://www.loggia.com/ Loggia.com -- exploring
the arts and humanities
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http://www.modernhumorist.com/ Modern Humorist -- fresh,
new humor
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http://www.glyphs.com/moba Museum of Bad Art -- a
celebration of bad art
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http://www.loggia.com/myth/index.html Mythography.com --
exploring Greek, Roman
and Celtic myth and art
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http://www.nerdworld.com/ Nerdworld -- the
definitive source for
nerdy culture
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http://www.openletters.net/ Open Letters -- writing
in the form of
correspondence
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http://www.outerdark.com/ OuterDark Publications --
writing from Spleen
Quarterly magazine
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http://www.overlawyered.com/ Overlawyered.com --
chronicling the high cost
of our legal system
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http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/ Ragged Edge magazine --
covering the disability
experience in the U.S.
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http://www.ssws.net/ S.S.W.S. -- Short Story
Writers Showcase
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http://www.satirewire.com/ Satire Wire -- new satire
for the new economy
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http://www.seti.org/ SETI Institute Online --
the Search for
Extraterrestrial
Intelligence
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http://www.banneradmuseum.com/ The Banner Ad Museum --
the best banner ads on
the Web
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http://www.thebluemoon.com/ The Blue Moon Review --
original literary work
online
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http://www.thegia.com/ The Gaming Intelligence
Agency -- gaming news and
insights
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http://www.tourbus.com/ The Internet Tourbus --
explaining the Internet
in plain English
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http://www.unmuseum.org/unmain.htm The Museum of Unnatural
Mystery -- a slightly
bizarre, cyberspace
science museum for all
ages
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http://www.wineloverspage.com/ The Wine Lovers' Page --
independent wine
appreciation site
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http://www.theforce.net/ TheForce.net --
comprehensive Star Wars
site
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http://www.thewax.com/ TheWax.com -- Webzine of
varied content and
commentary
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http://www.thisistrue.com/ This Is True -- bizarre,
true stories from the
papers
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http://www.tulevision.com/ TuleVision.com --
post-contemporary art and
entertainment
headquarters
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http://www.tvparty.com/ TVparty.com -- a tribute
to vintage television
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http://www.lostandfoundsound.com/ Peabody Award-winning
radio series produced by
NPR
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http://www.navone.org/ Victor Navone's 2-D and
3-D Art -- animator of
Blit Wizbok
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http://www.whatsgoingon.com/ WhatsGoingOn.com --
resource for festivals,
events and destinations
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http://www.yumyum.com/ YumYum.com -- recipe site
for everyday cooks
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