Which company sent the first product sold on Amazon.com?

Amazon sent the first product sold on Amazon.com, a book ordered by John Wainwright in 1995.

Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore and began operations in July 1995. The company’s first name was Cadabra, but it was later renamed Amazon, evoking the scale of the Amazon River.

The first sale was a copy of Douglas Hofstadter’s book Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies. That transaction illustrated Amazon’s original business model: using the Internet to offer a far larger catalog than a typical physical bookstore could stock.

Amazon later expanded from books into electronics, household goods, cloud computing, streaming, and other services. A common mix-up is calling the first sale a product shipped by Amazon’s modern marketplace; the company initially sold its own bookstore inventory rather than hosting today’s broad third-party marketplace.