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Amazon's first-ever sale in 1995 was a book shipped from Jeff Bezos's garage. What genre was that debut title?
Answer
Computer science
Amazon's very first sale in July 1995 was a computer science textbook — 'Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies' by Douglas Hofstadter — purchased by a friend of Jeff Bezos and packed by Bezos himself in his Bellevue garage.
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Amazon's 1995 launch sold its first book—a computer science text—to a friend of founder Jeff Bezos, who packed it himself in a garage.
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