Amazon Publishes 2019 SMB Impact Report; Launches Build Your Business with Amazon Website to Help Businesses, Authors, and Developers Succeed with Support from Amazon

Amazon NASDAQAMZN today published the 2019 SMB Impact Report highlighting how the company benefits the millions of small and mediumsized businesses SMBs content creators and developers in the US and worldwide working with Amazon SMBs are growing their businesses with Amazon by selling in Amazons stores publishing via Kindle Direct Publishing using Amazon Web Services as well as operating as a delivery service provider and building Alexa skills and devices This years report revealed findings from across Amazons businesses including More than 19 million SMBs content creators and developers in the US are currently working with Amazon SMBs selling in Amazons stores have created an estimated 16 million jobs worldwide up from 900000 in 2017 thousands of independent authors earned more than 50000 with more than a thousand surpassing 100000 in royalties in 2018 Amazon gave more than 500 million in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth and development in 2018 pblockquotep idpullquotepblockquote p View the full 2019 Amazon SMB Impact Report a referrerpolicyunsafeurl targetblank hrefhttpsctsbusinesswirecomctCTidsmartlinkampurlhttps3A2F2Famznto2F2019SMBImpactReportampesheet51980577ampnewsitemid20190507005381amplanenUSampanchorhereampindex1ampmd5289b94171fe4435cd1f24db5376b4fc6 relnofollowherea p p Amazons mission is to be Earths most customercentric company Among the customers were focused on are small businesses and entrepreneurs As we work to help them grow their businesses we are making big investments in our delivery network data centers AI research robotics Since 2011 weve invested tens of billions to help SMBs succeed working with Amazon said Jeff Wilke CEO Amazon Worldwide Consumer Amazon is inspired by the type of courage and inventiveness that makes entrepreneurs tick And our customers benefit from the products books videos and skills they produce We salute the millions of entrepreneurs creators and developers around the world whose impressive efforts are summarized in this report p p Amazon empowers small and mediumsized businesses to succeed in the digital economy selling their products online starting their own company to deliver packages to Amazon customers leveraging cloud services to quickly launch and grow their businesses building Alexa skills to reach customers and even publishing their own books The 2019 Amazon SMB Impact Report findings included p p bSMBs selling in Amazons stores in the US and worldwide are growingb p ul li classbwlistitemmargb Thirdparty gross physical merchandise sales primarily comprised of SMBs selling in Amazons stores surpassed 160 billion in 2018 and make up more than half of the units sold in Amazons stores li li classbwlistitemmargb In 2018 the number of SMBs eclipsing 1 million in sales in Amazons stores worldwide grew by 20 percent li li classbwlistitemmargb On average in 2018 USbased SMBs sold more than 4000 items per minute in Amazons stores and earned more than 90000 li li classbwlistitemmargb In 2018 Amazon lent USbased SMBs more than 1 billion to build inventory and support their Amazon stores li ul p bKindle Direct Publishing KDP is enabling authors to publish and distribute their books to millions of readers around the worldb p ul li classbwlistitemmargb In 2018 authors earned more than 260 million from the Kindle Direct Publishing Select Global Fund totaling more than 840 million since the launch of Kindle Unlimited li li classbwlistitemmargb Since launch in 2007 hundreds of thousands of authors from around the world have selfpublished millions of books through KDP li ul p bAmazon Web Services AWS is helping hundreds of thousands of SMBs and startups launch and scale their businessesb p ul li classbwlistitemmargb Tens of thousands of startups take advantage of specifically tailored programs providing the resources they need to quickly get started on AWS including credits training and support li li classbwlistitemmargb In 2018 Amazon gave more than 500 million in AWS credits to help startups accelerate their growth and development as they build their business li ul p bBuilders and developers are shaping the future of Alexab p ul li classbwlistitemmargb Thirdparty developers have built more than 90000 Alexa skills li li classbwlistitemmargb More than 90 percent of the Alexaenabled products that launched in 2018 were built by someone other than Amazon li li classbwlistitemmargb The Alexa Fund has invested in more than 60 companies building with Alexa and launched programs like the Alexa Accelerator and Alexa Fellowship to provide additional support to earlystage startups working with voice and AI li ul p To help support SMBs content creators and developers that are interested in working with Amazon the new Build Your Business with Amazon website provides information on how to achieve success with help from Amazon The company launched the new website to give businesses entrepreneurs authors and developers a onestop destination that curates many of the opportunities available to start or grow a business with Amazon Visitors to the site will learn how to open a store with Amazon and sell products to millions of customers worldwide earn referral fees by spreading the word about those products and work independently delivering Amazon packages to customers Developers can learn how to earn money building apps and skills for AWS and Alexa while authors can find access to selfpublish their own books or movies directly to customers Gamers can even earn money while playing Zelda with Twitch Visit the new a referrerpolicyunsafeurl targetblank hrefhttpsctsbusinesswirecomctCTidsmartlinkampurlhttp3A2F2Fwwwamazoncom2Fbuildyourbusinessampesheet51980577ampnewsitemid20190507005381amplanenUSampanchorBuildYourBusinesswithAmazonampindex2ampmd510166051037aa4af2bdeb2554d661636 relnofollowBuild Your Business with Amazona website to learn more p p To learn more about the millions of SMBs content creators and developers worldwide working 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