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This book is the definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing. The Everything Store will be the revealing, definitive biography of the company that placed one of the first and largest bets on the Internet and forever changed the way we shop and read.-- Publisher information.

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Editor and publisher, workaholic and romantic, idealist and pioneer, Lorne Pierce once described his editorial desk as "an altar at which I serve - the entire cultural life of Canada." Pierce laboured at his altar between 1920 and 1960 as the driving force behind Ryerson Press, the leading publisher of Canadian works during the mid-twentieth century. In Both Hands, Sandra Campbell captures the inimitable cultural role of a remarkable man whose work paved the way for the creation of a national identity. Both Hands delves into the encounters, trials, and triumphs that inspired Pierce's vision of cultural nationalism - from his rural upbringing in eastern Ontario, to the philosophical ideals he acquired at Queen's University, to his service as a teacher, a Methodist preacher, and a military man during the First World War. All these experiences coalesced in his work at Ryerson Press - then Canada's largest publishing house - even as he battled lupus and deafness to make his mark on the country's literary scene. Campbell situates this unflinching look into Pierce's personal and public life within the context of Canadian society, detailing his relationships with major figures such as the Group of Seven, Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, E.J. Pratt, the modernist Montreal poets, Northrop Frye, and many others. Set against the rich backdrop of Canada's early literary and artistic heritage, Both Hands vividly presents the life and work of an impresario of literary, historical, and art publishing of indisputable influence throughout the country's cultural milieus.

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Wat Steve Jobs was voor Apple is Jeff Bezos voor Amazon. Bezos werkte als dikbetaalde Wall Street-handelaar, maar durfde in de begindagen van het internet opnieuw te beginnen als ondernemer met een magazijn in zijn garage. Die gok werd beloond. Zijn bedrijf Amazon maakte in de afgelopen twintig jaar een onwaarschijnlijke groei door: van online boekhandel naar 's werelds grootste warenhuis.Brad Stone beschrijft de fascinerende geschiedenis van Bezos als ondernemer en laat zien hoe de ontwikkeling van het bedrijf vervlochten is met diens grootse ideeën over competitie en innovatie. Hij sprak met Bezos zelf en met groot aantal (voormalige) Amazon-medewerkers en geeft als eerste een inkijkje in een bedrijfscultuur van gedurfde investeringen en meedogenloze ambitie. Mr. Amazon is een genuanceerd en onthullend portret van dit fascinerende bedrijf en zijn excentrieke oprichter.Bron : http://www.atlascontact.nl

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Cheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print defy the conventional categories and models of distribution: we need to think about their extraordinary diversity, and about the means by which their unstable cultural images inflect distribution. Books were not dead things, and the examination of Italy, the Netherlands and Britain, three regions that contain instructive parallels and contrasts, reveals their unpredictable liveliness. This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of printing Contributors include: Alberto Milano; Jason Peacey; Jeroen Salman; Jo Thijssen; Joad Raymond; Joop Koopmans; Karen Bowen; Kate Peters; Melissa Calaresu; Roeland Harms; Rosa Salzberg; Sean Shesgreen.

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Publishers and publishing --- Printing --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Occupational mobility --- History --- 094 "14/16" --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1699 --- Conferences - Meetings --- Book publishing --- Books --- Book industries and trade --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Job mobility --- Mobility, Occupational --- Social mobility --- Book sales --- Publishing --- Book dealers --- Dealers, Book --- Publishers and publishing - Italy - History - Congresses --- Printing - Italy - History - Congresses --- Booksellers and bookselling - Italy - History - Congresses --- Occupational mobility - Italy - History - Congresses