Amazon's approach to product development
Nice thread on Quora on product development at Amazon by working backwards from a press release and using ‘Oprah-speak’
Amazon sells more ebooks than hard covers
As an iPad owner I don’t buy their statement that Kindle sales are a supplement to an iPad. This goes for 10% max. And my prediction is that a lot of Kindle owners will want to read stuff they buy at Apple or local champions on their device as well. So locking up customers might not be the best strategy in the long run. Enough examples available to make that case, I think.
Amazon should indeed be spending all its energies on furthering its app experience to make it the best book-buying and reading application on any platform.
Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars
Insightful post by Om Malik about the e-Book market.
Source: gigaom.com
No one gets cataloging “right” in any perfect sense, and no algorithm returns the “correct” results. We know that, because we see it every day, in every large-scale system we use. No set of labels or algorithms solves anything once and for all; any working system for showing data to the user is a bag of optimizations and tradeoffs that are a lot worse than some Platonic ideal, but a lot better than nothing.
