The New Paper

February 18, 2021

Amazon launches Kickstarter-like pre-order platform

Amazon launched a platform that uses customer pre-orders to decide which hardware products it releases. The platform, which drew comparisons to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, launched yesterday with a smart nutrition scale and two other products.
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