What was the first product sold by Amazon, according to the company’s early order records?

Amazon’s first recorded sale was the book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies by Douglas Hofstadter.

Jeff Bezos launched Amazon in July 1995 as an online bookseller operating from a garage in Bellevue, Washington. Although the business was designed to offer a huge catalogue rather than a physical shop, its earliest orders were still processed manually by a very small team.

The book is often remembered because it demonstrated that Amazon had begun with ordinary book sales, not with electronics, cloud computing or its later marketplace model. Amazon initially called itself Cadabra, but Bezos changed the name before launch. The company expanded beyond books in 1998, adding music and video before developing into a broad retail platform.

Some accounts describe this item as Amazon’s first sale, while others focus on the first item shipped or the first order placed. The commonly cited product in company histories is Hofstadter’s book.