From the July 9, 2012 edition of the Financial Times - - From Warehouse to Powerhouse by Barney Jopson. Great overview of the "Amazon Economy." From bookseller to provider of vital logistics for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
From the article:
At a macro level, hub businesses such as Amazon improve efficiency, which is good news for small players, says Marco Iansiti, a professor at Harvard Business School. "The bad news is destiny is shared with a bunch of other people," he says. "If Amazon has a catastrophe,if the website goes down, then a lot of people are affected. It is a source of systemic risk that we didn't have before.
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