It is now just over 20 years since Amazon had its IPO, setting it off on the path to e-commerce dominance and well over $500b in market cap. In these 20 years, Amazon, and its peers expanded across categories, from books and electronics to fashion and even grocery. And in parallel, a ruthless focus on shaving off delivery times and cost ensued, helping reduce buying friction and making online buying …
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Preprints : A Revolutionary Revenue Model for Indian Newspapers?
ln a previous blog post, I had written on the importance of the Sunday edition and how it now accounted for a disproportionate 40-50% of the weekly revenues of the average newspaper (For McClatchy, the figure is 36%). This had, I postulated, been built largely on the back of the triple-whammy[1] impact of the FSIs (Free Standing Inserts) or Preprints – essentially inserts / supplements full of …