Bob Dylan helps celebrate amazon.com's 10th birthday

Amazon.com celebrated its 10th anniversary with an all-star line-up that included rock legend Bob Dylan and singing sensation Norah Jones, and streamed the event live to its website.

“Dylan live on your computer. I remember it was a big deal when he went electric,” cracked comedian-host Bill Maher.

The line-up made clear that Seattle-based Amazon is “finally making some money,” Maher told his audience, made up of 2,500 employees and guests of the internet’s top retailer.

To mark Amazon’s beginnings as an online bookstore, best-selling authors James Patterson, Jim Collins and Daniel Handler were also present, along with screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan, best known for The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Dylan and Jones each performed some of their best-known songs, and then charmed the crowd with a duet of Dylan’s I Shall Be Released.

Handler, who apologised that his literary alter ego Lemony Snicket could not be present, accompanied himself on accordion for a song about Count Orloff, the main character in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series.