When at Powell's in Portland, they had a Print and Bind on Demand system,
I think they were mainly offering works from Project Gutenberg (Copyright
free, cost of printing only) but maybe some others. It is an idea that
would have been powerful 20 years ago... but... I'm afraid with eBooks
Applied Complexity at its best?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/?ncid=tcdaily
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I do have to wonder what safty nets they have- For example find something
cheeper, or don't need it.
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Tom Johnson t...@jtjohnson.com wrote:
Applied Complexity at its best?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/?ncid=tcdaily
TJ
On 1/18/14, 11:07 AM, Tom Johnson wrote:
Applied Complexity at its best?
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/18/amazon-pre-ships/?ncid=tcdaily
I can think of various analogues to this in computer science. One is
profile guided optimization, where instrumentation is added to a code so
that it
This looks awfully like the traditional model of shipping from a
warehouse to a local store/cache with it's own delivery service. The
local store/cache carries oft purchased items in its market while less
common orders will be back ordered. May be I'm missing something.
Patent denied!
What really burns my ass is that I had a series of e-mail convos with
Bezos in the earliest days that could have lead them near here nearly 20
years ago? He engaged enough to convince me he took me seriously, but
in the end... not so much.
At the time, I was trying to rescue an independent
