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    Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com had been in constant fight between each other since the explosion of online purchasing. Before the mid 1990’s online purchasing introduction‚ Barnes & Noble had big dominance in bookselling‚ as it was the largest bookstore in the world. With the entrance to the book market by Amazon.com‚ Barnes & Noble found a big competitor‚ as it represented a new and innovative way of purchasing a book. Making a financial analysis on both companies‚ we could notice certain

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    Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based in the case descriptions. How have these strategy and business model been evolved since the case was written? Barnes & Noble’s business model simply put was lower cost‚ and SCM. They sold merchandise at lower cost and they also decreased cost associated with procurement by obtaining better discounts from publishers than other book retailers and by publishing certain titles themselves. Since Barnes & Noble’s

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    with its mail-order catalogue in the 1970s. In the late 1980s‚ Barnes & Noble tested selling books online in an early generation venue called Trintex‚ a joint venture between Sears and IBM. In the mid-1990s‚ it sold books on CompuServe and later opened a full-fledged book superstore on America Online in March 1997. The company’s Web site‚ Barnes & Noble.com (www.barnesandnoble.com)‚ was launched in May of that year. Today‚ the Barnes & Noble.com Web site serves as the company’s largest store‚ enabling

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    there was a 10 year agreement that amazon.com Inc. back in August of 2000 which according to Toys R’ Us was violated. The New Jersey Judge found that “Amazon had a duty to maintain its data in a format that would permit it to provide historical sales data for the sales of all products that allegedly should be classified as exclusive products‚ and Amazon did not maintain its data in a manner that would permit it to provide that information to Toys therefore‚ Toys was not provided with the data necessary

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    Never Give Up‚ Be Brave Both stories The Finish of Patsy Barnes by Paul Laurence Dunbar‚ and The Drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury shared a similar theme although their differences. The two stories were about never giving up on hope and be brave and it will overcome all the odds. The Finish of Patsy Barnes is a story about a boy named Patsy who quits school to get a job at a track‚ who ends up on fair grounds listening to men talk. He was hoping he might get a job there to warm up the horses

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    Amazon strategies to manage its inventory Amazon .com called itself "Earths Biggest Bookstore” because it has been ranked as the best consumer e-business. It sells books‚ music over the internet. From both market and supply chain management point of views‚ Amazon has some challenges and strengths. Managing inventory is one of the company opportunities to overcome its financial barriers regarding the warehouses and shipping costs. Amazon follows some strategies to manage its inventories. It had the

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    Amazon is the world’s biggest e-commerce retailer. They were founded in 1994‚ being the first online retailer to secure one million customers in 1997. They are based out of Seattle‚ Washington but have locations in 18 U.S states and 14 international locations. They currently have over 88‚000 employees and are still growing. Amazon sells pretty much anything you want on their website‚ from DVDs and video games to shoes and sports equipment. When Jeff Bezos‚ founder of Amazon.com‚ started Amazon all

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    How does‚ Amazon changed the world? In 1995 amazon sold their first book‚ Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought. And then the rise of a huge company that will change online trading began. Amazon had such an impact on customers that it changed their buying habit they made it easy to find any kind of product for a lower price. Most of the people today‚ even if they buy something from physical store‚ they’re first looking it up online to see if

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    SERVICE MANAGEMENT - Amazon case Business Administration 1. How would you contrast Amazon’s business design with that of Barnes & Noble before Barnes & Noble went online? From a customer’s prospective‚ what are the advantages and disadvantages of each design? Customers shop by visiting Amazon.com‚ they can search and purchase a lot of books at once. They don’t need to visit off-line stores so they earn convenience. Also‚ When customers have a difficulty buying books or living far from

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    Contents Introduction: Amazon is an American multinational electronic commerce company with headquarters in Seattle‚ Washington‚ It is the biggest online retailer in world‚ although many consider that it is more a leading software developer or "information systems’ company with a little pick‚ pack and ship service" (Hof‚ 2003). This world-class retailer‚ which began doing business as an online bookseller in the mid 90s‚ has changed with the time and currently it offers its customers a

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