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Amazon.com and the world of e-commerce
Title
Amazon.com and the world of e-commerce [electronic resource (video)] / MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2005], c1999.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (29 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Sept. 19, 2005.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In part one of this program, filmed prior to the foundering of the Internet economy, NewsHour correspondent Paul Solman examines the methodology of Amazon.com's founder Jeffrey Bezos and Drugstore.com's CEO Peter Neupert, who faced stiffening retail and online competition by innovatively adapting their business plans. In part two, correspondent Margaret Warner analyzes the meteoric rise of dotcoms and their impact on society with Anitesh Barua, co-author of a university study on Internet profitability; Andrew Shapiro, co-founder of technorealism; John Battelle, president of the now-defunct Industry Standard; and former Wall Street analyst Paul Kedrosky.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, 1999
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Contents
Profit and Investment (6:34)
Stores Lose Customers to the Internet (4:56)
Online Product Selection (2:20)
Internet Economy and Local Stores (6:32)
Businesses Adopt Internet Use (3:52)
Small Businesses and Internet Use (3:43)
Videorecording number
10069 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
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