I finally got around to reading The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine. If you are not familiar with the “long Tail” concept (which seems unlikely) the basic idea is that while you can make a lot of money selling hit movies, music, books, etc, you can also make a surprising amount ...

Imagine you are the leading on-line distributor of books and that there is a widely popular book set to launch this week. You want to make sure people get their copy promptly… but not early, and you are shipping enough to fill a 200,000 square foot warehouse. Oh yes, and you don’t want the contents ...

I love the feature of Amazon where it recommends books that i might be interested in based on what I have ordered before but I had to laugh out loud when I got this email: Dear Amazon.com Customer, As someone who has purchased books by J. K. Rowling, you might like to know that Harry ...