Tag: Amazon
Is Amazon B2B or B2C? Understanding the Hybrid Model
Amazon operates as both B2B and B2C. Discover how the retail giant serves individual consumers and business customers through its hybrid model.
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We will ship it before you know you want it
This is an interesting development: Amazon has filed a patent for “anticipatory package shipping,” a system that predicts what a customer will buy and sends items to the closest warehouse near that shoppers shipping address. The goal of the system is to send items to shipping hubs in areas where it believes they will sell…
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The GAAFers
BRIC, MAVINS and PIIGS Back in 2003 the acronym BRIC was used by Goldman Sachs when talking about the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China combined. The report speculated that by 2050 these four economies would be wealthier than most of the current major economic powers. In 2010, the Business Insider used the acronym…
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Apple could replace Orange fiction prize backing
It’s all a bit of fruit salad! Apple are in advanced talks to replace Orange as the sponsor of the annual women’s fiction prize, according to a report. A marketing arrangement to promote the prize via it’s iBookstore to help the US technology giant challenge Amazon’s dominance of online book retailing is being discussed, according…
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Physical Books are Cheaper on Amazon
I’ve started to notice a number of books are being advertised on Amazon with the physical version being cheaper than the Kindle ebook. Amazon Price Kindle $16.17Paperback:Amazon $14.48New $13.13Used $15.40 This was for My Evernote by Katherine Murray. It doesn’t feel right to me. I ended up not buying it at all as I felt cheated.
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HMV ‘may sell’ the part of it’s strategy that is working
In 1921, the Gramophone Company opened the first HMV shop in London, England; the composer Sir Edward Elgar participated in the opening ceremonies. Today we are on possibly seeing the last Christmas for HMV. I hope not, but things are looking dire for them. HMV has said it may sell its live music division to raise…
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