<Table> <Tr> <Th> Time period </Th> <Th> Key developments at Amazon </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1994 -- 1998 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts off as an online bookstore selling books , primarily competing with local booksellers and Barnes & Noble . It IPOs in 1997 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1998 -- 2004 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts to expand its services beyond books . It also starts offering convenience services , such as Free Super Savers Shipping . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2005 -- 2011 </Td> <Td> Amazon moves into the cloud computing area with Amazon AWS , as well as the crowdsourcing area with Amazon Mechanical Turk . By being an early player , it eventually dominates the cloud computing scene , allowing it to control much of the physical infrastructure of the Internet . Amazon also offers the Amazon Kindle for people to purchase their books as eBooks , and by 2010 , more people buy ebooks than physical books off of Amazon . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2011 -- 2015 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts offering streaming services like Amazon Music and Amazon Video . By 2015 , its market capitalization surpasses that of Walmart . </Td> </Tr> </Table>
<Table> <Tr> <Th> Time period </Th> <Th> Key developments at Amazon </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1994 -- 1998 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts off as an online bookstore selling books , primarily competing with local booksellers and Barnes & Noble . It IPOs in 1997 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1998 -- 2004 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts to expand its services beyond books . It also starts offering convenience services , such as Free Super Savers Shipping . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2005 -- 2011 </Td> <Td> Amazon moves into the cloud computing area with Amazon AWS , as well as the crowdsourcing area with Amazon Mechanical Turk . By being an early player , it eventually dominates the cloud computing scene , allowing it to control much of the physical infrastructure of the Internet . Amazon also offers the Amazon Kindle for people to purchase their books as eBooks , and by 2010 , more people buy ebooks than physical books off of Amazon . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2011 -- 2015 </Td> <Td> Amazon starts offering streaming services like Amazon Music and Amazon Video . By 2015 , its market capitalization surpasses that of Walmart . </Td> </Tr> </Table>
when did amazon start selling things other than books
when did amazon start selling things other than books
1998
1998