RE: UKNM: Re: What's in a name/kind of unrelated

[Hannah Jefferies]

Talking of names? (tenuous link) Can anyone tell me the name of the new book

by the guy who wrote Primary Colors. Thought amazon might suggest'other

books by this author' when I searched, but alas no.


Thanks


-----Original Message-----

From: Nick Horley [

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Sent: 27 June 2000 10:14

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Subject: UKNM: Re: What's in a name


> Amazon

> It's a well-chosen name


Amazon wasn't Bezos' first choice of name (according to Robert Spector's

book). He was going to go for Cadabra, but one of the first people he tried

it on misheard it as "cadaver". In those days web directories were mostly in

alphabetical order, so Bezos read the whole A section of the directory, and

picked Amazon (after briefly considering "Aard") because it "could be

anything we wanted to make it" and it was "big".


Nick



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