Applying Social Science Concepts to Business: E-Book Edition

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Bill Petti

Sunday’s Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon has stopped selling Kindle versions of all Macmillan titles.  John Sargent, Macmillian’s CEO, recently went to Amazon’s headquarters to try and negotiate new terms for the sale of e-books published by his company.  In general, the publishing industry has been unhappy with Amazon’s insistence that most books be [...]

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The Apple-Amazon War Begins 1/27

Posted on January 19, 2010 by Bill Petti

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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Apple and Google agreed not to poach talent?

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Bill Petti

TechCrunch has learned from sources that during Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s tenure on Apple’s board the two firms had an unwritten agreement not to poach talent from each other. To be clear, this unwritten agreement was that Google would not go after Apple employees, and vice versa. However, employees of both companies were free to [...]

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Daily Linkage

Posted on August 5, 2009 by Bill Petti

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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An Innovator’s Dilemma: Amazon and Apple edition

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Bill Petti

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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