Money and Finance
- The Secrets Of Bezos: How Amazon Became The Everything Store
Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends...
- Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million For The Washington Post
In an ironic twist for a tycoon whose company has always kept its distance from the press, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to pay $250 million cash for The Washington Post. The purchase takes the newspaper out of the hands of the Graham family,...
- Inside Amazon's Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes The Customer
Found via My Investing Notebook. A few months ago Amazon reached what its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos demurely tells me was “an interesting milestone.” The retailing giant, so ubiquitously associated with books, then music and video, now has tens of...
- How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries On Their Heads
There's an old joke about a businessman who gives away his products. A customer asks: "How do you make money doing that?" He answers: "I make it up on volume."-It's nonsensical, yes. But a funny thing has happened: Giving away the product has...
- Amazon's Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio
New York – A little more than a year after the Kindle made its debut, Amazon announced a new, updated version of its popular e-book reader Monday with a big endorsement from Stephen King. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos demonstrated the features of the new...
Money and Finance
Upfront and Unscripted with Jeff Bezos (Audio)
I think Jeff Bezos and Chris Anderson are two of the best people from which to learn. I don't know how I missed this podcast the first time, but it is really great (in my opinion). I also think the iPod-like comparison is a valid one for The Kindle. A quote I enjoyed from Bezos: "You have to have a willingness to be misunderstood if you're going to pioneer."
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In this Upfront and Unscripted session, visionaries Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and Chris Anderson, Executive Editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail, participate in a one-on-one informal but incisive discussion focused on the evolving impact of Amazon’s Kindle on publishing models and reader habits.
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Kindleistas in the digital media continue to fuel the tipping-point chatter while others in the trade point to implications for publishers in a iPod-like digital mono-channel. Meanwhile, newer Kindle models are sure to bring stylistic and user changes that will encourage greater adaptation from consumers farther down the Long Tail. This is a conversation any stakeholder in the book industry should not miss.
Kindleistas in the digital media continue to fuel the tipping-point chatter while others in the trade point to implications for publishers in a iPod-like digital mono-channel. Meanwhile, newer Kindle models are sure to bring stylistic and user changes that will encourage greater adaptation from consumers farther down the Long Tail. This is a conversation any stakeholder in the book industry should not miss.
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This podcast episode begins with a special announcement from Bezos and Simon and Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Kroll Reidy. Reidy announced that Simon and Schuster will be make 5,000 additional titles available to Kindle users by the end of 2008, more than doubling their current offering.
This podcast episode begins with a special announcement from Bezos and Simon and Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Kroll Reidy. Reidy announced that Simon and Schuster will be make 5,000 additional titles available to Kindle users by the end of 2008, more than doubling their current offering.
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The Amazon Kindle
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Previous Bezos posts/links:
Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos - Interviews
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Who's Writing the Book on Web Business? (1996 short interview with Bezos)
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Put Buyers First? What a Concept
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Jeff Bezos D6 Interview - Highlight Reel
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Put Buyers First? What a Concept
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Jeff Bezos D6 Interview - Highlight Reel
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Previous Anderson posts/links:
Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business by Chris Anderson
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Article: "The Long Tail" by Chris Anderson
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The Long Tail: Book and Audio Book
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The Long Tail Web Site
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- The Secrets Of Bezos: How Amazon Became The Everything Store
Amazon.com rivals Wal-Mart as a store, Apple as a device maker, and IBM as a data services provider. It will rake in about $75 billion this year. For his book, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Brad Stone spoke to hundreds of current and former friends...
- Jeff Bezos Pays $250 Million For The Washington Post
In an ironic twist for a tycoon whose company has always kept its distance from the press, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has agreed to pay $250 million cash for The Washington Post. The purchase takes the newspaper out of the hands of the Graham family,...
- Inside Amazon's Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes The Customer
Found via My Investing Notebook. A few months ago Amazon reached what its founder and CEO Jeff Bezos demurely tells me was “an interesting milestone.” The retailing giant, so ubiquitously associated with books, then music and video, now has tens of...
- How About Free? The Price Point That Is Turning Industries On Their Heads
There's an old joke about a businessman who gives away his products. A customer asks: "How do you make money doing that?" He answers: "I make it up on volume."-It's nonsensical, yes. But a funny thing has happened: Giving away the product has...
- Amazon's Kindle 2 Slims Down, Adds Audio
New York – A little more than a year after the Kindle made its debut, Amazon announced a new, updated version of its popular e-book reader Monday with a big endorsement from Stephen King. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos demonstrated the features of the new...