eCommerce Archives - McCarthy Digital Marketing, data, technology, publishing Wed, 01 Jan 2014 20:38:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 40827753 Amazon’s Next Acquisitions? They Live in the Cloud https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/#respond Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:30:21 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=823 If you’re competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering. We have found that, on the Internet, “me too” strategies seem not to work very well. –Jeff Bezos, November 2008 (or so) I was pointed toward a very interesting piece of analysis (along […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/07/18/amazons-next-acquisitions-they-live-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0 823 Poems by Heart from Penguin Classics – Poetry in Your Pocket https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/19/poems-by-heart-from-penguin-classics-poetry-in-your-pocket/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/19/poems-by-heart-from-penguin-classics-poetry-in-your-pocket/#respond Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:09:45 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=643 A secret to please keep quiet: I am not just a crass marketer or cold-eyed analyzer of publishing strategy. I am those things, or like to think I am anyway. But, truly and firstly, I love books and reading. (Shhhh…might ruin my rep.) So, this is a post written with the love of reading at […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/19/poems-by-heart-from-penguin-classics-poetry-in-your-pocket/feed/ 0 643 Some Thoughts on Amazon’s Acquisition of GoodReads https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/04/some-thoughts-on-amazons-acquisition-of-goodreads/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/04/some-thoughts-on-amazons-acquisition-of-goodreads/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:33:44 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=560 Our mentality here is to first do no harm, and make sure that if we’re going to do integrations, users genuinely find it to be a big benefit. — Russ Grandinetti, Amazon VP of Kindle Content (via PaidContent) I’ve been asked by several people what I think about Amazon’s acquisition of GoodReads. It’s funny because […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/04/04/some-thoughts-on-amazons-acquisition-of-goodreads/feed/ 0 560 Amazon is Many Things, Including a Publicly-Traded Company https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/02/12/amazon-is-many-things-including-a-publicly-traded-company/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/02/12/amazon-is-many-things-including-a-publicly-traded-company/#respond Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:51:33 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=465 Most publishing folks I know always figured that light at the end of the tunnel was probably a train. Now I believe we know it is. Not just by Amazon’s actions now but by what they’ll probably be forced to do in the future… A recent piece by Fortune’s Apple-watcher Philip Elmer-Dewitt caught my eye, at first for its […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2013/02/12/amazon-is-many-things-including-a-publicly-traded-company/feed/ 0 465 Platform Lock-In and Consumer eBook Prices https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/10/02/platform-lock-in-and-consumer-ebook-prices/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2012/10/02/platform-lock-in-and-consumer-ebook-prices/#respond Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:09:29 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=397 There has recently been a great deal of speculation and study as to what is happening – and what will happen – to eBook prices in a post DOJ settlement world. I must admit up front that I, like many, don’t know, though I am following along and am as curious as the next publishing […]

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