On July 16, 1995 a new bookstore opened in the American city of Seattle. No one steps inside to buy anything. Yet the store, if you could call it that, had (36)________ last year of 7,000 million dollars. Ten years ago, few people bought things over the Internet and they thought it was (37)________, but Amazon-dot-com changed many people’’s minds. Ten years later, an estimated seven out of ten American (38)________have used a computer to buy something. Market researchers at comScore Networks estimate online (39)________ last year at 117,000 million dollars. That was for goods and travel services. The person who started Amazon, Jeffrey Bezos, remains its leader. In the 1990s he urged (40)________to help Amazon "get big fast. " Yet Amazon invested in many similar businesses that (41)________. Amazon lost plenty of money and did not make a profit until 2003. Its most recent profit and (42)________report, released last week, was better than many market watchers had expected. Today people can buy not just books and music but also many other products through Amazon. It competes with eBay, which celebrates its tenth birthday in (43)________. EBay calls itself "the world’’s online marketplace. " (44)________________________. (45)________________________. EBay has grown to include several other businesses, including PayPal, a company that processes online payments. As online sellers grew, traditional stores saw the future. Today, (46)________________________, Wal-Mart.