Amazon was founded with the vision to make books more accessible to readers around the world. In the UK, this started with the sale of the book 3001: The Final Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. The fourth and final book in the brilliant sci-fi Space Odyssey series, the novel follows Frank Poole, one of the astronauts from the original 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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The company has diversified into a wide array of products but books have remained a core part of Amazon, with subsequent expansions over the years into eBooks with Amazon Kindle and audiobooks with Audible.
To celebrate 25 years of Amazon in the UK, we’ve collected a selection of the most popular books of all time on Amazon.co.uk, for a peek into what the British public have bought and read over the years.
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