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Flagship Feature
Last updated 09.05.08
Bricks and clicks in the mix
Jeff Bezos seems pretty good at predicting the future. Way back in 1997, the Amazon founder told The Bookseller how online book retailing would pan out in the UK: “Over the next year or so, there will be a large number of small players. Then...
All to play for
Just four years ago, few in the book trade would have taken much notice of Play.com. The online retailer, founded in 1998, focused on selling CDs and DVDs mainly to young, tech-savvy men. That changed in 2004 when the Jersey-based...
Trade Profiles
Last updated 29.04.08
Dyer debriefs design
With a career in book design spanning two decades and a bulging portfolio to his name—ranging from the launch of Vintage paperbacks to the rebrand of Rough Guides—you might expect Peter Dyer to have an ego.
Yet,...
Store Profiles
Last updated 09.01.08
Wagging the long tail
As booksellers' mission statements go, "All Books Available to All" is about as bold as it gets. But since its launch in 2004, The Book Depository (http://www.bookdepository.co.uk) has rarely been short of...
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- LBF: Assessing the risks
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