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People Round Up, Mid January, 2024

Publishing Trends

Cindy Yen has joined as as online and digital sales coordinator. Ellen Zhang has been promoted to sales representative for online and digital sales, and Ankanee Lagunarajan has been promoted to audiobooks coordinator. Doubleday Canada has Diyasha Sen joining as editorial assistant.

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A Product Storytelling Framework from an Unlikely Seasonal Source

Contently

It closed its last store in 2001.) Families visiting the Montgomery Ward in-store Santas would get a copy for free, the boss explains; Marketing hopes the allure of the story and the free-book promotion would boost holiday sales more than the generic coloring books Montgomery Ward Santas usually passes out to kids.

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Compare The Best Merchant Services

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Amazon has done so many smart things that some of the best ones get forgotten

The Idea Logical Company

It made all their sales cash-flow positive. Gaster is the Amazon historian, and he traces their deep discounting philosophy to 2001. Sales to that point of ebooks had been meager and there was little incentive for publishers to bear the cost of creating ebook files even for their new titles, let alone for a lot of their backlist.

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How to Use Documentary Filmmaking Techniques to Craft Memorable Content

Content Marketing Institute

In 2001, apparel brand Vans sponsored the feature-length documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, chronicling the early skateboarder culture of Southern California. Though Vans’ first film project was released in 2001, the brand is still creatively knocking it out of the park in 2018. Vans embodies skater culture. Where to begin?

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The 100 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs 2024

Income Diary

Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web and earns $386 Billion a year. After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany.