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Amazon makes a lot of money.

In 2016, Amazon accounted for 43% of all online retail sales in the U.S. and raked in $136 billion in sales.

But how? Do they make their money on books, or on merchant sales, or on TV shows? Where does the money come from, and what does the breakdown look like? We dig into Amazon and answer all of these questions for you.