Amazon Archives - McCarthy Digital Marketing, data, technology, publishing Thu, 02 Jan 2014 16:14:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 40827753 Top 5 Publishing and Marketing Posts of 2013 on McCarthyDigital.com https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2014/01/01/top-5-publishing-and-marketing-posts-of-2013-on-mccarthy-digital/ https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2014/01/01/top-5-publishing-and-marketing-posts-of-2013-on-mccarthy-digital/#respond Wed, 01 Jan 2014 21:25:05 +0000 https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/?p=945 I suspect many the digital marketer has spent some time (or much time) over the past week or two wrapping up the 2013 metrics, scratching his or head about this or that trend, data nugget, etc. I am no exception and I’ve learned a lot from 2013 — along the way and, now, from looking […]

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]]> https://www.mccarthy-digital.com/2014/01/01/top-5-publishing-and-marketing-posts-of-2013-on-mccarthy-digital/feed/ 0 945 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 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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