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In S.E Hinton’s book, The Outsiders, many of the characters struggle with a difficult family life. It is very clear that being loved and having a sense of self-worth is important in high schoolers’ lives. Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade showed how it is imperative to have strong ties with family and friends. For example, one pivotal point in the novel is when Johnny kills the Soc (Bob) that was trying to drown Ponyboy. After Johnny stabs Bob, he says, "I had to. They were drowning you Pony.…

S.E Hinton wrote the outsiders when she was in high school and did not plan to publish the story. Since then it has been made into a book and a movie. I think the book was bad because it did not give the effects that the movie did.I liked the movie because it had more of the story put into it detail wise.While the book and movie have many similarities and differences, the movie was more effective in telling the story. To begin the first comparable scene is when the socs arrived in there cars…

free e-book on Kindle is a great first step to building an email list. And then once you’re established, once the signup list grows, then you can start offering paid e-books on Kindle. This serves you with two purposes; one, it’s a form of a second stream of income, and two, it continues to help build up your clientele email list. So why not just kick things off with a paid e-book? You could certainly try; it just may not go nearly as well as you’d like. Once you already have a free e-book that…

electronic books. With the increasing price of textbooks for school, students could use e-books as an alternative to receiving all the information they need. Most students, however, would prefer to rely on the hardback copy, but why use that when e-books are offered at a much lower price? Studies have argued about the difference in learning that e-books instill in students rather than paper books. Some fear that it may hinder their learning, but others disagree. Students should use e-books…

Introduction Amazon.com Inc. is unquestionably the largest e-commerce retailer in the world today; yet, what made Amazon.com Inc. transcend from a “good” business that sold books online to the “great” business that it is today? To begin we must understand that which determines if a business is “good” or “great”. In his book Good to great: Why some companies make the leap and others don’t author Jim Collins defines greatness in terms of a business as the ability of a company to average cumulative…

of the leading source of distributing digital books across the globe through the use of internet. It offers its customers a wide range of books to select form, with categories and tags available to help the customer filter out what they like. In addition, if the customer is aware of exactly what they want, they can directly type the book's name in the search bar available at the home screen of the website's homepage. If only author name is known, books can easily be searched using only that…

1) Historical background In mid1970, FNAC, the biggest cultural retail chain dived into book industry and started selling book with a significant amount of discounts, which conventional bookstore couldn’t afford. In this context, French government started to discuss the importance of regulating the price of books, and they took into action of the fixed price of book to achieve the idea of greater acceptance that cultural diversity and national unlikeness should be maintained and encouraged by…

expanded their offerings. The company started to add DVDs, electronics, toys, tools, housewares, apparel, etc. into its selling list. Amazon used direct-to-consumer online model, and Amazon offered a broad selection. Later, Amazon invented the Kindle, an e-book reader, and the Kindle Fire tablet. Today, Amazon expanded business in other countries. Becoming a global company brought challenges to Amazon. Situational analysis In 1995, Amazon started an online bookstore in the United State. The…

my attention span when reading books can easily get interrupted. The first time I was interested in books was when I first started reading The Harry Potter Series. This was sometime in elementary school. The books were quite advanced for my age; however, my grandmother was my source of help. She became my educator throughout elementary whenever I needed help with literature work outside of school. Since the books of my age didn’t interest me, I began reading books that were based off movies that…

Amazon.com is an American electronic commerce company which is the world’s largest online retailer. The company which began as an online book store has since diversified its products to include selling DVD’s, CDs’, software, video games, furniture, food, toys, jewellery and electronics. Looking at the company’s business model, it proves that the company is not a traditional retailer. Retail is only a part of the company and although Amazons products are sold at a standard mark-up, the company…