Amazon Your Industry Extracting Value from the Value Chain

Amazon Your Industry: Extracting Value from the Value Chain Way cool Web sites and measures of hits and eyeballs are clearly driving revenue in the dot-com world. To date, these metrics have provided the basis for the extraordinary market valuation of the new generation of Web retailers. In the near term, most e-tailers must focus on surviving the incubator phase of the Internet retail industry by gaining enough market shares to become a sustainable player. Efficiency and productivity lie in our future, Amazon.com Inc. s president, Joe Galli, has said. Eventually, however, the basis of competition will change. In the long term, we believe that sustainable competitive advantage in the Internet Economy will result from†¦show more content†¦Since half of each year s sales come from backlists, the largest publishers maintain a total library that can exceed 30,000 titles. 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