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"Hating Amazon Is Not a Strategy" — The World Reacts As Amazon Opens a New Front in the Pricing Wars

The misplaced anxiety and consternation publishers and authors showed in the face of Amazon’s Price Check app revealed an industry and culture rooted in the past. And that’s not where the readers of the future are coming from.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 17, 2011
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If You're Not Growing, You're Shrinking — The Asymmetrical Expense of Playing Defense

Big and defensive organizations often end up overspending on treading water, even as their core customers ride other waves.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • May 12, 2011
  • 1 Comment

How the New York Times Bestseller List Is Created

A short video explaining how the list is made.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Dec 17, 2010
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