Despite dire predictions, bookstores are doing well: they are curators of taste and community hubs. But their challenges are many – from the arrival of Amazon Down Under to a ‘post-truth’ climate that devalues knowledge.
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An expert in the charity sector responds to Jeff Bezos’s request for advice on how to give his money away.
A pioneer of ethical consumerism, wedded to a corporate giant with a questionable record? The lessons of a decade ago should be ringing alarm bells.
Amazon paid a premium to snap up the upscale grocery chain, so we asked an economist to help us better understand the deal and what it means.
Australian retailers aren’t efficient enough to compete with Amazon on price, and that’s before we factor in Amazon’s other businesses.
Amazon currently sells pretty much everything, including the kitchen sink, but medications are very different from books and fidget spinners.
Research shows consumers value speed when it comes to shopping. Australian retailers need to react or they will lose.
It’s crucial to know the relationship between biodiversity and carbon storage to assess whether carbon-focused conservation will also protect the most biodiverse forests.
Amazon.com and others are eager to fill the skies with drones delivering packages at all hours. Convenient, yes, but it could transform – and not in a good way – our ability to make informed choices.
Films funded and streamed by Netflix and Amazon are playing an important role in this year’s festival.
The governments move to include low-value online bought goods in the GST doesn’t treat overseas and local sellers in the same way.
We spend most of our waking hours at work, but are we really ourselves when we step through the door?
After a lot of hype, it looks like Amazon will finally come to Australian shores. But it won’t be the end of Aussie retail.
Tools like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allow psychology researchers to recruit test subjects from around the world. But the system can also be exploited.
‘Intelligent’ voice interfaces like Alexa and Siri are much hyped, but they have limitations, not all of which can be solved with better technology.
The new motoring series will be used to help launch another video on demand service in Australia. But will consumers find away to access the show and avoid paying another fee?
We’re used to debating the region’s environment. But far-western Brazil has lots of urban problems too.
Land animals were able to find refuge in the depths of the forest. But aquatic species weren’t so lucky.
Over the next few years, drones are going to take to the skies en masse – and cities will need to accommodate them.
Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant device is coming to the UK and bringing smart homes with it.
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Professor and Director of Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Associate Professor of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, University of Richmond
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Practice, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and Director of Research, Texas A&M University
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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