Now Amazon is laying off workers in its books business, per a leaked internal email obtained by Business Insider earlier this week. "Today, we are taking the very difficult step of eliminating some roles on your team," a senior Amazon manager stated in the email. The reductions affected employees working on Amazon's Goodreads review site as well as its Kindle division. Within its first month of launch, Amazon had sold books to customers in all U.S. states and 45 countries. In the first 10 months of 2022, Amazon sold $16.9 billion worth of books globally.