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Amazon Created New Market for Other Entrepreneurs To Thrive

ActiveFilings: Although Amazon.com started as an online bookstore, its expansion into selling so many different types of items has created a marketing channel with room for similar operations. One example is Alice.com, a website that sells only household items. Alice.com is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin. The company started in 2008 and has since established a

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Man Creates System to Automatically Write Hundreds of Thousands of Books

Singularity Hub: Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has had a side project for over 10 years. He’s created a computer system that can write books about specific subjects in about 20 minutes. The patented algorithm has so far generated hundreds of thousands of books. In fact, Amazon lists over 100,000

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The Death of the Printed Book

TechRadar: Amazon has announced that it now sells more Kindle ebooks than all print books – that’s hardcover and paperback combined – through the Amazon.com site. Introduced less than four years ago, the Kindle has quickly become Amazon’s top selling product, and now digitised books for the reader have become more popular with its customers

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Amazon Prime, By the Numbers

Amazon Prime is a membership program on Amazon.com. After joining, members pay an annual fee of about $80, and get free two-day shipping on just about everything Amazon sells. I know that the numbers below are true for me. Amazon doesn’t disclose details of the Prime program publicly but according to estimates Amazon Prime members:

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