Much has already been written about EBay – a lot good (100,000 plus people making a living from buying and … More
Category: Retail
Retail, E-commerce and online shopping
Did you notice how shops have changed ?
5 Years ago, you could walk into Waterstones in Dublin and see 8-10 sections
filled with computer books. Walk in today and you would be lucky to see 1-2
sections, less than a quarter the number. The titles still being covered are
the ‘mass market’ items – Word, Excel , Access, Microsoft Office. No longer
can you find the items of specialist interest – JMX, Aspect Orientated
Programming, Ajax and the like. Even books on Oracle and Enterprise Java are
getting hard to find?
Wired Article – The Long Tail
Before I got into IT, I was involved in Supply Chain Management – the stuff that gets your Cornflakes from … More