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I am a huge Kindle user and advocate. I bought my Kindle 2 about one year ago and have found it tremendously useful, both for personal and business reading. The ability to access books and the notes and highlights I make across platforms (Kindle, PC, web) is fantastic and incredibly functional. A few days ago [...]
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My very first post back in August of last year examined Amazon’s attempt to disrupt the publishing industry through the release of their Kindle reading device. The irony, of course, was that while Amazon was looking to Apple and the iPod and iTunes as inspiration their plans were most likely to be thwarted (or, at [...]
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James Surowiecki from The New Yorker (and Wisdom of Crowds fame) discusses the recent ‘price war’ that broke out between Wal-Mart and Amazon: [L]ike other price wars: all the companies involved got hurt. So you might wonder why Wal-Mart recently decided to start its own price war, taking on Amazon in the online book market. [...]
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Scott Berkun discusses what he sees as the highest impact innovation in terms of books prior to the Kindle: The invention of cheap paperback books, Penguin makes books cheap enough for the average citizen (1935). This was a revolution in the U.S. as it made books cheap, portable and part of middle and lower class [...]
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Links of note for today: Roseabeth Moss Kanter tells us we must first dread change before we can master it. I don’t know if we have to dread it. A best practice for strategy professionals is a recurring evaluation of the market they operate in–both current and future states. You don’t need to be scared [...]
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The cover story in this month’s issue of Fast Company profiles Amazon.com and discussing the long-term strategy behind the Kindle and their push into the e-book market. The article is a great read, especially as it provides insight into Amazon’s larger strategic goal. Not only is Amazon looking to pull an Apple by disrupting and [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
