Amazon vs Walmart

Amazon gets a lot of ink about its innovations and business practices. Deservedly so. Wired magazine’s Tim Carmody has even…

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Hidden City: Anchorage

Marcus Sakey’s Travel Channel series, Hidden City, recently filmed in Anchorage, Alaska. Among the topics: Robert Hansen. Well, of course;…

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Know Thy Audience

I have been looking at the sales mix (net units sold) between online outlets like Amazon, and brick-and-mortar outlets, including…

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So You Want to Make a Movie

My fascination with the movie business may fade, but for the past year or so it’s held more than a…

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Dear Amazon, Apple, B&N…

As I’ve said elsewhere, this eBook format thing is crazy. Now that the industry has roughly settled on the EPUB…

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