Amazon.com became the leading online video retailer within 6 weeks of adding video in November 1998.
Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.
Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?
Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.
What would count as true or false
True: Amazon launched its video store in November 1998 and was recognised as the leading online video retailer (by sales) within about six weeks, that is by around the end of 1998. Mostly true: it became the leader within about two to three months, or the launch date differs slightly. Mostly false: it became a leading but not the leading seller, or reached the top only well after six weeks. False: it did not become the leading online video retailer in that period.
Set before the research began.
Evidence (3)
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E1 Amazon.com Opens Video and Holiday Gift Stores to Enhance Online Shopping Amazon.com (PRNewswire release) · 17 November 1998 Own record
“The video store is Amazon.com's third product line, following its original line of books and then music CDs, which it added in June. Amazon.com is now the Internet's No. 1 book and No.1 CD retailer.”
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E2 Stock Zooms as Amazon.com Sells Videos Los Angeles Times · 18 November 1998
“Amazon.com hadn’t even opened its online video store before industry watchers declared it a slam-dunk for the Internet retailer.”
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E3 Stock Zooms as Amazon.com Sells Videos Los Angeles Times · 18 November 1998
“The company, a leader in online bookselling that expanded into selling music in June, almost immediately took over the No. 1 spot in online music retailing.”
Reasoning
E1, Amazon's own press release, and E2, an independent LA Times report, show that Amazon opened its online video store in mid-November 1998. E2 says only that industry watchers expected the store to succeed before it opened. E3 says Amazon quickly took the No. 1 spot in online music retailing, not video. None of the evidence shows that Amazon was recognised as the leading online video retailer by sales within about six weeks, or at any later point.
Cite this claim
Jeff Bezos, “Amazon.com became the leading online video retailer within 6 weeks of adding video in November 1998.” (said 1999). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_854dd0f7da69, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_854dd0f7da69
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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