When we launched, we launched with over a million titles. There were countless snags. One of my friends figured out that you could order a negative quantity of books. And we would credit your credit card and then, I guess, wait for you to deliver the books to us. We fixed that one very quickly.
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Jeff Bezos in a recent Vanity Fair article about the early days of the web.
(via romeojulietsierra)
A perfect example of what I and some friends refer to as a “doh!”-moment
(since it’s a Simpsons expression I guess more people than us uses it)
