Amazon has long sold you products. Now it wants to help you fix your sink, clean your home and mount your TV, too. Four months after the e-commerce behemoth quietly began posting listings for services such as TV installations, Amazon is formally announcing the new category of listings in partnership with TaskRabbit, Pep Boys and TakeLessons, among others. The move into services will pit Amazon against such companies as Angie’s List, Craigslist and a host of startups, though none have become the mainstream, go-to destination for home services.
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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