It has been several years since many of us have gotten used to the fact that, if we want to buy a product, or at least know its main characteristics, we look for it on Amazon to review its strengths and weaknesses. But do you know what was the first product that was sold on Amazon ?
This habit, which accompanies the youngest practically from birth, has not so well-known beginnings, which do not go back to the birth of electronic commerce in the 1970s , but in particular to the emergence of Amazon as a platform.
And, at this point, we want to answer the question that probably more than one has ever asked, about what was the first Amazon product and if it is still available on the site.
Well, what few know is that Amazon really began its adventure as a portal from which you could buy books , the same books that the great North American bookstores offered, but with the ease of finding them all in a single space, and being able to receive them at home.
With an endless catalog of all kinds of articles and having crowned its creator Jeff Bezos as one of the richest men on the planet , we then have a clue as to which was, indeed, that first product sold on Amazon. A book, sure, but which one?
Well, we are sure that you will not be right, because it is a little known book for the common people, and it is not one of the most printed in history, far from it.
What is the first book ever sold on Amazon?
It is “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought” or, as it was marketed in Spanish-speaking nations, “Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought”, a work by the American academic Douglas Hofstadter.
Launched in 1995, more specifically in the middle of that year, it was the first publication that was offered to the public through Amazon, and its main objective was to promote the computer modeling of intelligence , a hypothesis that earned Hofstadter different recognitions.
But the most striking thing is not that, but Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought is still on Amazon so that whoever wants to buy it can do so, and it has a value of 13.59 euros, so it is not very expensive.
Did you imagine that a scientific book was Amazon’s first product?
