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English
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"An insightful look at how Amazon really works and how its founder and CEO makes it happen. Amazon's business model is deceptively simple: make online shopping so easy and convenient that customers won't think twice. It can almost be summed up by the button on every page: Buy now with one click. Why has Amazon been so successful? Much of it has to do with Jeff Bezos, the CEO and founder, whose unique combination of character traits and business strategy...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Books, even obscure ones, are readily available online in the age of digital retail. As bookstores attempt to find their identity in a new era, some have survived by selling everything from toys to socks, coffee to stationery. In this short book, Jeff Deutsch, the director of the Seminary Co-op Bookstores in Chicago, aims to make the case for the value of spaces devoted to books and the value of the time spent browsing their stacks. It is a defense...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the stories we've loved especially, and discuss important books with fellow readers in book clubs and online communities. But for all the ways books influence us, teach us, challenge us, and connect us, many of us...
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Publisher
LID
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Historias, curiosidades y anécdotas que definen y nos muestran la evolución de un personaje totalmente poliédrico. Jeff Bezos es el padre de Amazon. Es el genio más grande que ha habido en los negocios desde Rockefeller. Un tipo con un talento desbordante y un ejemplo digno de emular o el peor CEO del mundo según los sindicatos. Bezos sueña con llevar un día a toda la humanidad fuera de este planeta llamado Tierra, tan «aburridamente agotado»....
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Publisher
Polity
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination of economic pressures and technological change is forcing publishers to alter their practices and think hard about the future of books in the digital...
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