Kindle, the Civil Code, "Shades of Grey": This is the sales ranking list from Amazon 15 years - ABC Online

Since 1998, the Germans can order books, electronics and much more on the net now already. Now Amazon has published a ranking of its best-selling products at this time and it actually offer some surprises.

to the day 15 years ago, on 15 October 1998, the online department store Amazon opened its digital doors to the then 8.4 million users in Germany. Even after a year and two months, the mail order company celebrated one million registered customers. At the beginning there were only to buy books, while today even food can be ordered. So also the best seller in the first day of sales was a marketing book that the online retailer could then sell at least ten copies.

Today, 15 years later, online shopping for many, is not an indispensable part of everyday life. So many younger people may perhaps not even remember what a bookstore looks like inside.

readers and electrical odds and ends as top products

His 15th Anniversary in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, has published a ranking of the 15 best-selling products from 1998 to 2013 today Amazon. There you will find some usual suspects such as the company’s own electronic reader, and all kinds of electronics small items like memory cards and computer cables, but also unexpected items.

Somewhat surprising effect, for example, that both the German Civil Code (BGB) and the German Commercial Code (HGB ) are in the hit list. The BGB is even a best-selling book ever. Whether the common population would thus respond to the next neighborhood, lease or contract dispute just order from Amazon or very many lawyers, however, is not known. The Civil Code was found incidentally on the first Amazon sales day as a top 4 of the most selling books again. At that time it submitted four copies sold.

Twice “Shades of Grey” on the list

In addition to the statute books, it also have two parts of best-selling trilogy, “Shades of Grey” made the list. The reason for this is somewhat easier to guess: After all, it’s in the book series quite explicitly to sado-masochistic eroticism. That because of the direct contact with the bookseller should be avoided quite a light.

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The entire list “The 15 best-selling products from 1998 to 2013″:

1 AmazonBasics High-Speed ??HDMI Cable with Ethernet
2 Kindle, 15 cm (6 inches) e-ink display, Wi-Fi, silver gray
3 Civil Code BGB
4 Transcend Extreme-Speed ??SDHC 8GB Class 10 memory card
5 Kindle Paperwhite 15 cm (6 inches)
6 Transcend Extreme-Speed ??SDHC 16GB Class 10 memory card
7 Memory Card SanDisk Secure Digital High Capacity, 4GB
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Power charger for eReader, Kindle EU USB charger, EU9 The joy Calendar (Book)
10th Samsung Star S5230 Smartphone
11th Shades of Grey – Exempt Lust: Vol 3 (Book)
12th Shades of Grey – Secret Desire: Vol 1 (Book)
13th Commercial Code HGB
14th Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book)
15th Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 German (software)