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Amazon's foreign publishing push: A customer data play

May 20, 2010 by Stephen Baker
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I'm trying to imagine everything Amazon knows about me. The company's computers know the books and music I buy, the ones I click on, the ones I send as gifts. On my Kindle app, they can monitor the ones I read, and even gauge my enthusiasm. (As they well know, I'm struggling with The Golden Bowl.) Given all that data, which foreign... [read more]

An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos

March 11, 2010 by Phil Simon
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Link to original post. This post might not be a wise move but I never claimed to have a perfect batting average in the wisdom department. David probably shouldn’t tick off Goliath in general. In this case, when it comes to selling books, Amazon is clearly the 800 lb gorilla in book sales. Maybe I shouldn’t write this post. On the... [read more]

Books! Books! Books!

December 15, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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When my daughter was born almost two years ago, I wondered if she’d grow up reading books. After all, I do most of my reading online, and increasingly find myself reading short articles rather than whole books. Needless to say, she’s loved books so far, even if she’s shredded a few. But the bigger surprise for me is that books –... [read more]

Information Is An Asset

August 16, 2009 by Steve Bennett
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An interesting article in today's newspapers as Amazon is rebuffed in its efforts to sign Kindle deals with local publishers News Ltd. and Fairfax. From the SMH: Mr Murdoch has questioned the benefit to newspapers of using Kindle because Amazon keeps the lion's share of subscriber revenue, thought to be 70 per cent, as well as... [read more]

Is Amazon really that cool as we keep saying?

August 1, 2009 by Akin Arikan
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For all that buzz around Amazon’s sophisticated analytics and its targeted book recommendations, it is worth asking in Kevin Hillstrom’s priceless, heretic style: Is it just hype or does it really make the big difference for their business? Do we really buy from Amazon because of the recommendations, personalized emails, the behavioral... [read more]

Amazon Elastic MapReduce, and other stuff I don’t have time to grok yet

April 2, 2009 by Chuck Lam
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Lots of good stuff have been coming to my attention lately.Amazon just announced their Amazon Elastic MapReduce program. Sounds like the main point of this service is to simplify setting up a Hadoop cluster in the cloud, and Amazon charges you a little extra above the normal EC2 and S3 costs for this service. Not clear to me yet why... [read more]

PAW: The unrealized power of data

February 19, 2009 by James Taylor
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Live from Predictive Analytics WorldAndreas Weigend, former amazon.com Chief Scientist, gave a keynote on the unrealized power of data. He started with a historical perspective. In the 70s perhaps 10M used computers, mostly in the back office. By the 80s this had reached 100M and the front office. By the 90s the internet and search... [read more]