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Permalink Reply by Alan Smith on May 19, 2009 at 1:00pm

I've heard from insiders at Chapters / Indigo that they invested heavily in a similar machine (if not this brand), to compete with similar investments made by Barnes and Noble.

It looks to me like the big book-sellers who are loosing big sales to Amazon are the ones who are really going to benefit from these things!!!

I'd also say it works best when paired with the traditional book browsing experience. Browsing books on a shelf is still a wonderful experience that hasn't been matched digitally and doesn't look like it will be for a while. There's a very particular customer case I see this machine fulfilling, that you were right, Amazon long tail distribution was one of the only services that was really fulfilling that case.

Best,
-Alan

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Permalink Reply by Fernando Saenz-Marrero on May 19, 2009 at 1:23pm

Thanks Allan :

There is an experiment going on...we will see what follows.

The real thing is there is still life after the Amazon-shock , and customer segmentation and business -model innovation still matters in this sector of the retail-bookshop business.

Myself as a Borges´s pupìl benefit of both worlds : emotional and serendipity real shelf browsing and navigating through the global´s big library of Amazon

Best
Fernando

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Permalink Reply by Patrick van der Pijl on May 20, 2009 at 4:04pm

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for sharing. At the moment we are in the research process of printing the BUsiness Model Generation Book. Cool to see this option also. We do have a different size ;-)

I was thinking to share the research on the Hub... Would that be interesting?

Cheers Patrick

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Permalink Reply by Fernando Saenz-Marrero on May 21, 2009 at 3:59pm

From my point ov view, of course it will be interesting this "experiment within the experiment".

Size doesn´t matters in this case ;-)

Best Fernando

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