Off-Property Hotels. Also notice on the map of Disneyland hotels, Howard Johnsonâs and the Camelot Inn really are across the street from Disneyland. (For more on these hotels, see Hotels Near Disneyland.) To give you an idea of scale, the Camelot Inn is only about 20 feet closer to the entrance than Howard Johnsonâs.
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Naming and evolution. In 2004, founder and CEO of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos had his employees build the world's best e-reader before Amazon's competitors could. In reference to this e-reader, Amazon originally used the codename Fiona. The Kindle name was devised by branding consultants Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma.