Since opening in 1995, Amazon.com has been hailed as the world's largest bookstore. Its virtual shelves are stocked with 1.1 million titles, six times that of the US's largest physical bookstore, the Barnes and Noble in Manhattan, which has a piddling 180,000.
1995 年，美國亞馬遜書店開張，這個號稱「地球上最大書店」的虛擬書店販售著 110 萬種紙本書，數量比美國紐約最大的實體書店──邦諾（大約有 18 萬種書），多出 6 倍。