Amazon's Business Model
Amazon's Annual reports and proxies - Amazon's Annual reports and proxies
Amazon's corporate presentations - Amazon's corporate presentations
Amazon's Historical financials - Amazon's Historical financials
Amazon's Business Plan - A presentation mentioning elements of Amazon’s business strategy (slides 9-32), such as user-generated content, data-driven automation (e.g. product recommendation based on previous purchase data on presonalized profile pages), general advice for organizing e-commerce staff and the importance of design testing. Slides by Anil Kumar, IAAN School of Mass Communication (ISMC) New Delhi, India
Wikipedia's freely editable article –
Wikipedia's freely editable article on Amazon's business model.
An Amazon Case Study - a classroom case study on Amazon's business model and Amazon's future business strategies by
Elram Gavrieli, Open Computing Faculty, UC Berkeley
Dr. Rappa's Case Study - a case study on Amazon's business model by Prof. Rappa,
DigitalEnterprise.org (2004)
Amazon's Newer Business Model -
Amazon's Newer Business Model, a CNET article by Gordon Haff (2007)
Amazon and Business model innovation –
Amazon and Business model innovation, a blog post by Josh Suskewicz (2006) based on the article "Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet," Business Week, November 13, 2006.
Amazon @ WikInvest –
WikInvest' freely editable article on Amazon's business, historical finances, business model (marketplace, platform), international expansion, risks and opportunities, and hot topics such as the long-term profit margin uncertainty, Amazon Kindle’s revenue model, Amazon Prime, Economies of scale, Amazon’s market share in China (Joyo.com), A9 and Clickriver, and other future business opportunities, with a list of further reading at the end.
Requester Pays: A New Amazon Business Model - Businesses using S3 can mark up data buckets so their transfer will be paid by data requesters instead of being paid by their owners as it is now. Used in conjunction with DevPay, the new model opens new business opportunities for companies willing to share their data with others. An InfoQ blog post by Abel Avram (2007)
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