“So we thought to ourselves, how do we make that even better this year?” he said.
“That’s above my pay grade,” he said, smiling in response to a question from Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang at our GeekWire Summit regarding whether or not he was pitching his home town of New York as a possible site for HQ2.
“Placed Aisle to Amazon is the largest study to date quantifying the impact of showrooming for brick-andmortar retailers,” David Shim, founder and CEO of Placed, said in a press release. “The study clearly shows that showrooming is more than media hype, and a real problem that retailers need to address. By putting a number to showrooming, retailers can start to better understand the impact, and take action based on data versus anecdotes and assumptions.”
“The potential for harm from the President’s ire is far less of a risk, near term at least, than the risks that Cambridge Analytica has exposed around Facebook,” analyst Lloyd Walmsley told clients, according to CNBC. “The U.S. Department of Justice focuses on the impact on consumers, not the impact on competitors, when it evaluates antitrust issues. Given Amazon has been a positive force for competition and for consumers, it seems like it would be an unusual target.” He also noted that Amazon now charges sales tax to customers in 45 states that have a sales tax, and the company has located fulfillment centers in many of those locations in order to ship goods more quickly to consumers.
“So I actually wrote him an email because I understand that he responds to those kinds of things,” Hubley said. “I just said, ‘Thank you for the shout out, I really really appreciate it. I’m honored. We are having a watch party in Doppler if you’d like to come in a couple days.’ He wrote back and said, ‘Well, I know you’ve already taped it, but good luck. Just wanted to wish you the best.’ It was so great. I showed all of my team members that, and they were like, ‘Jeff B. knows who you are now, that’s crazy!'”
“The question obviously will arise: Are we?forsaking?the physical book for the digital? Not at all, I think that digital is very much an adjunct to reading a physical book. They in no way replace the pleasures that one has from having a bookshelf at home, from the tactile experience of reading a physical book. What we do recognize, and which quite clearly our customers are saying to us, is that in some circumstances — traveling and the like, most obviously — a digital reader is convenient, and better way to read. What we are doing by this is giving our readers the ability to buy all of their reading from Waterstones in the best possible manner.”
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“I’m not going back to Microsoft. I started a new industry. A life in the cloud.”
“One of the tenets we started with was that we wanted books to be the hero of the store,” Cast said. “And they call to you when they’re faced outward.”
“Is everything in here free?” he asked, looking wide-eyed at the video game section.
“My dream job was to be a finance officer at a tech company. Amazon would fit that description,” she laughed.