Understanding Amazon

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 16, 2012

Amazon started as an internet bookseller in 1994. Today, it sells everything from clothes to diapers -- and has revolutionized the e-reader market with the Kindle. Financial Times reporter Barney Jopson talks about how the company has evolved and how it's responded to increasing scrutiny.

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