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Digital Darwinism: Seven Breakthrough Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy (Penguin Business Library)
 
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Digital Darwinism: Seven Breakthrough Strategies for Surviving in the Cutthroat Web Economy (Penguin Business Library) (Paperback)

by Evan Schwartz (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (7 Oct 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140286845
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140286847
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 965,021 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #52 in  Books > Reference > Library & Information Sciences > Digital Librarianship
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Over the last few years, the big bang of the World Wide Web has shaken the realm of commerce. Today on the Internet, you can get everything from phone numbers and dancing babies to golf clubs and custom-built computers. Some of these Web sites are businesses that found their genesis in the advent of the Web itself, while others are longstanding companies trying to adapt to the reality of this new digital marketplace. Who will survive and who will be rendered extinct? That's what Evan I. Schwartz tries to answer by dipping into the Internet's "primordial soup" to discover the characteristics of the winners that will eventually emerge.

In Digital Darwinism, Schwartz identifies seven strategies that will separate the winners from the losers. These include building a brand that stands for solving something, elastic pricing, affiliate partnerships and integrating digital commerce with every aspect of business. Schwartz buttresses his arguments with analysis of dozens of companies already competing on the Internet, including Yahoo!, Peapod, Priceline, E*Trade, Dell Computer and Recreational Equipment, Inc. Schwartz views these early years of the Web as largely "irrational," but anticipates a general rationalisation. He writes: "As each successive generation of Web commerce passes, there will be more rational companies and fewer irrational ones, more fit business models and fewer unfit ones. In the future, there may be no such thing as an Internet company. The Internet is becoming so important that all companies will eventually become Internet companies."

Like his previous book, Webonomics, Digital Darwinism is succinct and easy to read. His analysis of the current state of Internet start-ups, their stock prices and their probable fate is provocative, especially when viewed from a Darwinian perspective. For managers, investors and anyone interested in Internet commerce. Recommended. --Harry C. Edwards, Amazon.com

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A follow up to "Webonomics", this text looks at the rapid changes in the web ecconomy over the last couple of years and provides the reader with a sophisticated set of tools to help create, expand or enhance his/her business. Evan Schwartz also explores companies that have so successfully exploited the new rules of the web economy that their entire business or most of their profits are web-based.


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5.0 out of 5 stars A uniqe approach to defining on-line brand strategies, 15 Oct 2000
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Digital Darwinism is one of the business books that actually inspire the reader to be excited by the developments in the new media industry. Rather than focus on the technical ins and outs of web design, the book discusses business strategies in a mixture of marketing and history. The author further discusses 7 key strategies for building brands on-line and goes on to give examples of companies that have followed these strategies. Essential reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book packed with examples of web successes, 4 April 2000
By miffj@hotmail.com (Barcelona, Catalonia) - See all my reviews
I really enjoyed this book as it explains Evan Schwartz' theories in detail with loads of examples. The stories of web companies in America help to show how far behind we in Britain are in our thinking of the internet as a business tool. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a great book!, 6 Sep 1999
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I think this book is excellent because it takes all your web surfing experience to date and makes sense of it. By this I mean that all that vague stuff sloshing around in your head is consolidated and given structure by this book. It is really well researched and has an eye on the future. It's also a nicely written, interesting read. If you're starting a new internet business read this and Evan's other book 'webonomics' first... and learn how to avoid other internet startups' mistakes!
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