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This excerpt taken from the AMZN DEF 14A filed Apr 17, 2009.

BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SHARES

The following table sets forth certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of the Company’s common stock as of February 28, 2009 (except as otherwise indicated) by (i) each person or entity known by the Company to beneficially own more than 5% of the common stock, (ii) each director of the Company, (iii) each executive officer of the Company for whom compensation information is given in the Summary Compensation Table in this Proxy Statement, and (iv) all directors and executive officers as a group. Except as otherwise indicated, and subject to any interests of the reporting person’s spouse, the Company believes that the beneficial owners of common stock listed below, based on information furnished by such owners, have sole voting and investment power with respect to such shares. As of February 28, 2009 the Company had 429,119,552 shares of common stock outstanding.

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner

    Amount and
Nature of
Beneficial
Ownership		     Percent of
Class		  

Jeffrey P. Bezos

    97,167,078     22.6 %

1200 12th Avenue South, Suite 1200

Seattle, WA 98144

     

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

    45,896,054 (1)   10.7 %

100 E. Pratt Street

Baltimore, MD 21202

     

Tom A. Alberg

    78,466 (2)   *  

John Seely Brown

    10,000     *  

L. John Doerr

    2,934,083 (3)   *  

William B. Gordon

    14,409 (4)   *  

Alain Monié

    —       —    

Myrtle S. Potter

    9,383 (5)   *  

Thomas O. Ryder

    47,334     *  

Patricia Q. Stonesifer

    68,217     *  

Sebastian J. Gunningham

    75,000 (6)   *  

Marc Onetto

    68     *  

Thomas J. Szkutak

    90,957     *  

H. Brian Valentine

    126     *  

All Directors and Executive Officers as a group (20 persons)

    100,809,226 (7)   23.5 %

 

* Less than 1%.
(1) As of December 31, 2008, based on information provided in a Schedule 13G/A filed February 11, 2009. T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. has sole voting power with respect to 14,270,000 of the reported shares and sole investment power with respect to 45,793,454 of the reported shares and no shared voting and investment power with respect to the reported shares. For purposes of the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. is deemed to be the beneficial owner of such shares; however, it expressly disclaims that it is, in fact, the beneficial owner of such shares.
(2) Includes 15,000 shares held by a charitable trust of which Mr. Alberg is a trustee and as to which he shares voting and investment power. Mr. Alberg disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of common stock held by the charitable trust.
(3) Includes 11,454 shares owned by KPCB Information Sciences Zaibatsu Fund II, a California limited partnership (“KPCB Info”). Mr. Doerr is a general partner of KPCB VII Associates, L.P., a California limited partnership, which is the general partner of KPCB Info. Mr. Doerr disclaims beneficial ownership of the shares of common stock held by KPCB Info except to the extent of any indirect pecuniary interest in his distributive shares therein.

 

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(4) Includes 2,334 shares issuable under a stock-based award that vested April 9, 2009.
(5) Includes 2,500 shares issuable under a stock-based award that vested April 12, 2009.
(6) Consists of 75,000 shares issuable under a stock-based award that vested on March 5, 2009.
(7) Includes 314,105 shares beneficially owned by other executive officers of the Company, of which 73,130 shares are issuable under stock-based awards exercisable as of February 28, 2009 and 6,073 shares are issuable under stock-based awards vesting from March 1, 2009 to April 29, 2009.

 

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