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Article: CONNECTING WITH AMAZON; MAKING THEIR MARK ON THE INTERNET
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- February 10, 2005
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The Patriot Ledger
QUINCY
Tucked away in one of a half-dozen brick buildings on Quincy's
gritty Water Street, US Markerboard doesn't exactly announce its
presence to the world.
It doesn't even have a sign visible from the street.
But the 9-year-old office fixtures retailer is about to become
more visible on the Internet thanks to a new agreement to sell its
products on Amazon.com, one of the largest online merchants.
Like the much larger Amazon, US Markerboard is one of the few
purely online retailers to survive the bust of the Internet bubble.
It represents 26 office products manufacturers and has about 500,000
visitors a month to its web site, usmarkerboard.com.
"When it was impossible for ...