Amazon, Stop Messing Around and Ship Hachette’s Books

Amazon is an amazing online retailer, capable of shipping products within 48 hours (or even less) from the moment you click "Buy Now with 1 Click." It’s a miracle of modern logistics and technology.

So why, for one particular book publisher (Hachette), does Amazon appear to be using a horse and buggy for its deliveries?

Could it be spite?

Under founder and CEO Jeff Bezos' leadership, Amazon has become the world’s most aggressive retailer. It gives no quarter to any competitor and is always looking for ways to deliver products from its voluminous catalog as soon as possible. The company is actually investigating how to intuit in advance what products you’ll buy in the future, so Amazon can have enough of that stuff at a nearby fulfillment center and delivered to you even faster. Bezos is so concerned with fast, cutting edge delivery that he even went on CBS’s 60 Minutes and unveiled a completely impractical drone delivery service Read more...