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DBW: Galloway Says Expect Thousands of Amazon Stores; Data Guy Fills In Sales Gaps From Indie Publishing World

March 9, 2016
By Sarah Weinman

NYU Stern School of Business professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway presented an updated version of his popular talk on the second day of Digital Book World on how the Four Horseman of the digital age — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google — are each on unstoppable trajectories towards becoming trillion dollar market-cap companies (led by Facebook). Of particular note in our community, Galloway noted “ecommerce is a great business as long as you work for Amazon; for everyone else it’s a s—– business.” By his count “51 percent of all growth online goes to Amazon.” Look forward, he said with confidence, […]

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