From VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report.The world's largest online retailer company, Amazon has launched its first shopping website in India.The company hopes to make use of India's economic growth to expand its online business.The amazon website in India offers seven million books and 12,000 movies and television programs.It plans to add more products in the coming weeks.The American company will not sell its own products in India,Indian laws ban companies that carry goods from more than one manufacture from selling directly to people on the Internet.Instead the amazon website serves as a marketplace for local businesses.Shabori Das is with the market research company Euromonitor. She predicts the online shopping in India will experience a yearly growth of nearly 17 percent in the next five years."This makes India among the top 20 fastest growing Internet retailing markets in the world."Online businesses are looking at India's huge young population, many of home live in cities.Only about 12 percent of Indians have connection to the Internet -- much less than in countries like China.
