Essays on Bookstore

Company description.

Amid the most innovative companies on the globe, Amazon.com, Inc. stands out as a leader in online retail trade. It was started by Jeff Bezos in 1996 an online bookstore, but the advancements in the Internet commerce tools paved the way for expansion to other goods and services. Today, Amazon has online shops dedicated to such countries/regions as the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Japan, China, France, Italy, Brazil, and Australia, amongst others (Forbes, 2016). The company provides solutions for four primary customer segments as content creators, enterprise, sellers and end consumers. Other products/services available for offers from this ...

Hardware

• To have a complete function and properly designed maintenance system transaction devices will be required. • The bookstore will require a sale transaction device to keep a track on the book quantity and sales. For that, the use of scanners and registers will be needed. For that, computers are required with fast CPU, mouse, and keyboard.

• The maintenance crew will keep a track on book quantities and record.

• Also, a printer will be required at the bookstore to mention notices on the notice board. Estimated Capacities • A manageable storage capacity will be required by the books tracking system. For that, 8TB capacity storage will be needed. • The backup storage capacity is also ...

Definition

Opportunity cost is the choice of the alternative good or services against the other based on cost and benefit. There is always a trade-off in opportunity cost as resources are limited and they are used in various ways.

Examples

Suppose a person is thinking of riding a bus and not driving his own car. If he is riding the bus then he is travelling more cheaply but not as comfortably like his own car. So, some cost travelling by bus are waiting for the bus, walking to the bus stop and a slow journey. If the choice is between travelling ...

The University Bookstore – Textbook Department experience a peak season business usually in the first few weeks of each school semester. The bookstore serves about 21,600 customers in a 12 workdays of the peak season of semester at a daily time frame of 9 am- 9pm. About 30 percent of the bookstore’s customers buy four books while 25 percent buy three. Twenty percent of the customers buy two books while 15 percent buy five books, 10 percent buy one book. The bookstore spends .5 minutes for every one book of cash transaction per customer, 1.6 minutes for every ...

Executive Summary

Lehigh Valley Campus in Pennsylvania is proposing to incorporate renewable sources of energy (Hybrid Photovoltaic Cells and Thermal Collector) into the campus and a cybercafé/bookstore business venture in honor of the recently deceased alumnus of PSU, Wayne K. Newton. It is our firm belief that this project will fulfill the Late Wayne Newton’s visionary dream and fulfill the family’s wishes to donate the funds. The campus aims to use these funds to procure hybrid solar module and design a cybercafé/bookstore business premise

The total cost of the project will be $87120.

The remaining funds will cater for future needs should they arise before the ...

Introduction

In this error of digitization, e-books are slowly and steadily posing a stiff competition to traditional print books. E-books are loved more by the younger generation whereas the older generation identifies more with the traditional print books . Despite the advantages that come with reading e-books such as ease of portability as well as convenience, they also have some shortcomings that can be addressed through the reading of traditional print books. The essence, therefore, is to incorporate both traditional print and e-books into ones reading culture.

Claim

The traditional print books will not go away, but e-books help us improve the ...

Executive Summary

Executive Summary The number of students enrolling each year is much higher than the previous years. The number of foreign students has also increased over the past years. It is reported that the number of foreign students has increased by 10% from 2014 to 2015 . Overall, around 20.2 million students have attended college or university in 2015 . From the noted stats, the increase in a number of students is noted, and it is also observed from the past trend that the number of students tends to increase every year. From the provided facts, it is considered to be a ...

I. Introduction EBooks are not effective in the learning process of students for it distracts their attention. When reading that statement, many people will think differently. Some would argue that each person has their own method of learning. By the adjustment of their preferred method, they would learn something easier. I would think the same too at first. After conducting research, I would later find out a different outcome. Some people prefer to read printed books for studying. In this argumentative research paper, I will show how eBook is actually not effective for student because of various factors involved ...

Introduction

Sexuality refers to sensation and linked closeness between two human beings. In psychological terms, sexuality is the way through which people make an expression of the completeness of love between a woman and a man. In biological terms, this is the means through which the conception of a child occurs and the ancestry is passed over to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to look at the issue of public expressions of sexuality concerning the law in the United States. In this paper, is going to be established that public expressions of sexuality in the United ...

Calendar of events

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12th April 12, 2016 Geoff Manaugh discussion The Harvard Bookstore in conjunction with the Boston society of architects welcomes all for a discussion with the BLDGBLOG founder for a discussion from his book A Burglar’s Guide to the City. ...

Film Analysis Paper # 1 (Before Sunset)

The meeting of Celine and Jesse has taken place after 9 years, since their romantic walks through Vienna, and they seem to be complete strangers. Each has his own life, he possesses favorite books and the family, where the laughter is not heard; she has a friend, in which she is not sure. They met, complained to each other, remembered last meeting and talked a lot. Both became older, both are passionate about some particular things in life. They do not live in misery and are alive and well. While watching the movie, it is easy to see the ...

Today’s world requires people to earn college credential for financial success. American colleges ensure successful students, but only 56 percent earn a degree in a period of six years. Legislators across the country have realized the problem and are acting to increase college completion rates (Korn & Belkin, 2014). Furthermore, the proportion of adults with college credentials is not keeping pace with other industries countries. The US has an education deficit rate that threatens global competitiveness and the future of country’s economy (Messick, 2013). This paper propose education policies that will promote college completion goals through college rating plan.

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Introduction

There are various factors that need to be considered when designing software interface. These factors will ensure that users will get the best experience with the use of the software. There should be some principles that need to be followed when designing computer software. This paper will focus on usability principles and design requirements for online book system. There will then be a comparison of different online bookstore bookstores.

When designing software, there is a need to ensure that there are principles that are followed in order to have effective user interfaces. Consistency - one of the design principles is ...

1) In the case of Jackson there arises quality problem which range from poor expertise service delivery sectoral management failure as the managers in charge of their departments are not aware of some of the services or work carried within their category as well as being ignorant and giving false information to the customers the customer was continually frustrated by use of wrong information perpetually he was assured that his car would be ready soon and ready for correction but this turned out be not the case and this made his car to taken longer than it was required.

Poor expertise is seen in how the condition that was supposed to be rectified was worsened

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Executive summary and an overview of the company

With the explosion of the internet or the World Wide Web in the last decade, many businesses and organizations have realized the need to tap into the internet resources to improve their businesses. There are many e-business ideas that are aggressive and geared towards improvement of products and services provided by these companies. Some of the companies have partially adopted the use of e-commerce strategies for some of their services and products, while some are purely e-commerce driven businesses. One such business is Amazon.com. Amazon.com is an American e-commerce company that is based in Seattle, Washington. Founded in ...

Q1: The four cycles of HR are: acquisition, development, maintenance, and separation . Acquisition is also one of the relevant functions of HR which directly affects HRM. Acquisition involves recruitment, screening, and placement of applicants for positions that are vacant in the organization. Thus, the ability of HR personnel to locate candidates that perfectly match the needs and requirements of the organization as defined in the job description would determine the level of effectiveness in the HRM system. Development is also a function of HRM that involves training of personnel and identifying opportunities for promotions and earmarking career paths. This ...

Introduction

The movie “bottle rocket” by Wes Anderson clearly shows how criminal behavior is learned through interactions. As such, individuals learn criminal behavior by interacting with others who influence their actions in the undesired manner. Social learning is one of the theories used in criminal law to explain how criminal behavior is acquired through interactions. According to the theory, individuals learn criminal behavior through associating with other people who have criminal thoughts, values, and attitudes. For instance, in the movie, Anthony acquired criminal behavior through interacting with Dignan. Additionally, the theory asserts that reinforcements play a significant role in the acquisition ...

#211905869 - Expanding Your Business

Boston will make a great location for our second store for the following reasons. The city has a very rich history both technologically and education-wise. This meets the vision of our business which is to sell rare books both online and offline. This is the case for the following reasons. To begin with, the city of Boston is home to over 50 highly acclaimed colleges and universities including Ivy League universities Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to this, Massachusetts in general is home to some of the best performing public schools. This ...

US Investment Review

Amazon.com is the largest bookstore. This is a company that changed the very essence of trade, giving popularity to the sale over the Internet. Currently, its market capitalization is estimated at USD 132.91 billion and number of employees amounts to 132,600 people. Amazon is a US-based multinational electronic commerce company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The mission of Amazon.com is to be a place where “people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.” Amazon.com crucial factors of lowering price, offering convenience, expanding selection, and increasing availability are unified in what the company calls a virtuous cycle, and ...

Business Report on Amazon

Introduction Amazon is one of the most renowned and distinguished online retailer. It is an American run e-commerce firm. They have their headquarter in Seattle, Washington. It is known as the leading company which is operating electronically through the internet. Since more than ten years, they have managed to sustain their position. They have been comparatively unaffected by the changes in the external environment. Initially Amazon was an online website which was involved in selling books online. Later, when they started being successful, they diversified their operations to sell videos, mp3 songs, video games, apparel, jewelry, packaged ...

Company overview

The online bookstore will be known as booksgalore.com. The store will stock online and paperback versions of rare books on the following subjects: history, philosophy, theology, fiction and science. The bookstore will be in operation as from mid-January 2015. Its base of operation will be New York City where the company will have a warehouse for storing paper back copies of books. The company’s site will be hosted and maintained by Itl Internet Service providers which will be contracted on a yearly basis.

The company’s address is:

335 Park Avenue Street

New York City

United States of America www.booksgalore.com

Mission and vision

Vision A book in every hand. ...

Barnes & Noble is the largest retail company located in the United States with its primary activities of supplying books in the entire United States bookshops and colleges. The company started back in the year 1886 with its first bookstore called Arthur Hinds & Company, which was in the New York City. The company didn’t go for long before its fall, and its name changed to Hinds & Noble after Gilbert Clifford Noble became a partner. Clifford Noble bought out his partner Hinds in 1997 and got into a partnership with William Barnes, who was his old Friend’s son Charles the name ...

Random acts of kindness come spontaneously and with no expectation of anything in return. When one acts kind toward others, they feel the effects themselves and happiness emerges. Opportunities for random acts of kindness can be found everywhere and every day, and can therefore become a part of your daily life. You can hold doors open for someone, help elderly carry something heavy, give homeless people gift cards or something as simple as a pointed smile directed toward a stranger. While I hope to do more acts of kindness, I have recently done some with pleasant results; a happiness that emerges only from ...

Introduction – use headers / subtitles through out

I will mark grammar problems and you will have to correct them. Ebay was founded in 1995 by Pierre Omidyar and is currently headquartered in San Jose, California (Bjornsson, 2001). It was originally meant to be an online “flea market” selling goods for individuals. After selling the first item listed, a broken laser printer, Pierre began to expand the website. In 1995 and 1996, eBay began to hire its first employees and in January of 1997 the site hosted eight times as many auctions than of the entire previous year (Bjornsson, 2001). In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder introduced ...

Random acts of kindness come spontaneously and with no expectation of anything in return. When one acts kind toward others, they feel the effects themselves and happiness emerges. Opportunities for random acts of kindness can be found everywhere and every day, and can therefore become a part of your daily life. You can hold doors open for someone, help elderly carry something heavy, give homeless people gift cards or something as simple as a pointed smile directed toward a stranger. While I hope to do more acts of kindness, I have recently done some with pleasant results; a happiness that emerges only from ...

Executive Summary

The internet age has brought with it a revolution in business. It has been a departure from the age-old “manual” way of conducting business to an automated and computer generated applications which ensure that the producer, the retailer and the consumer are interlinked by the internet. As a result of the “internet revolution”, e-businesses have now emerged. These businesses conduct all their activities online, starting from marketing, advertising, display of products and even payment for the goods and services by the consumer (Kessler, 2003). This has reduced the expenditure and the time taken when marketers have to visit all the countries in ...

Management

Introduction Any new business venture has the probability of plunging into myriad financial hurdles emanating from poor performance. Putting a clear business strategy in place is a key ingredient for the business success. A good business strategy aims at putting in place clear objectives and goals in finalizing business decisions to avoid business failure. To achieve a balanced business perspective, it is essential to consider using a Balance Scorecard as an integral part of your business planning initiative. The Balanced Scorecard is a business approach used in aligning your business to the mission, vision, core values and strategy of the organization. Like other ...

Assignment 4: Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are Leading?

Dr. Carla Henryhand BUS-520 Leadership Style: What Do People Do When They Are Leading? Introduction There have been a number of renowned leaders in contemporary times who excelled above the rest. In examining the factors that contribute to effective and successful leaders, leadership style always emerge as a crucial component. Leadership style is “the pattern of behavior and actions that leaders make over a period of time as perceived by followers. It is how leaders behave, over time, when they are trying to influence the performance of others” . The current discourse hereby aims to investigate the leadership style ...

Question one

Over the years, the aspect of e commerce has become popular with large corporations shifting gears towards an emphasis retail website. Amazon is one of the leading organizations that have established a stable customer base through retail websites. The organization was started back in 1996 with the focus being consumer convenience, variety and pricing. The two main segment of operation for the organizations international segment and North American segment. The organization has successfully provided consumers with a wide variety of products and at the lowest prices possible. The organization has diversified its platforms to offer developers as well as enterprises different ...

Psychology

Problem Solving

Online students at Harrison College are unhappy because their books are not delivered promptly. What can we do to make the students happy?

W3 – Taking the Problem Apart

Our ideas about the problem - Students need to order their books from the College - Students should receive their books during the first day or week of classes - Students need the required reading materials in order to keep pace with the lessons - Our college professors should start on teaching the students while waiting for books to be delivered - Our bookstore needs to order books from ...

A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill

A saint on death row is a story that was written by an Irish-American author Thomas Cahill. In this tragic and heart wrenching story of a death row inmate known as Dominique Green, Thomas brings out the injustices and flaws that surround the American legal system. The issue of racism also comes up because the death row inmate (Dominique Green) was African American.

About the Author

Thomas Cahill is an American scholar born in New York in 1940 to Irish- American parents. Cahill grew up in Queens and the Bronx. He studied at Greek and Latin Literature, scripture and theology as well as medieval ...

[Affiliation] Amazon.com is one of the most fascinating companies to study because of its continued growth and its continued top performance among businesses of its kind. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, and the company itself have been named either as person or business person of the year and the company as enterprise of the year on several occasions (Burke and Mangalindan). Within three years after its launch, amazon.com revolutionized not only the whole concept of how people buy books (Princeton Academics), but the whole concept of shopping online itself (Webley). Amazon founder Bezos is a voracious book reader and shopper. ...

The purpose of this memo is to alert you to the research results after comparing textbook prices at book three outlets. In general prices of textbooks in the book marketplace have been increasing. This makes a difficult situation for students already trying to pay university and housing bills. Many students have jobs to help pay the costs, but an increase in the price of textbooks is the last thing that students need.

Pricing Comparison

New books

The most expensive book costs over two hundred dollars: $212. Titled Trigometry it is needed for a class in the Math Department. The second highest costing book ...

1. Business background and project objectives The Follet Higher Education Group Rent- a- Book store is the name of the business its clientele is a large pool of college going students, their tutors amongst other surrounding stakeholders. The project intends to come up with a product promotion campaign to create awareness of the existence of the book –renting service in the college bookstore. The service has been around for quite a considerable length of time but most stakeholders have not been utilizing it because of ignorance. 2. Integrated marketing and communication plan and strategy scope clearly show the objectives, techniques, ...

Customer Service

Customer Service is a crucial aspect of any business entity since it provides the business with customers, through retention of the already available customers and the acquisition of new customers. The already available customers need to feel valued and satisfied. The management has to ensure customer retention and satisfaction is highly maintained.

Customer Service needs

Well motivated staff that politely welcomes customers- This creates a comfortable atmosphere for customers to shop. Improved skills and efficiency- Frontline staff has training publications that are provided by the management every month in order to keep the staff on its toes, and ensure students’ needs are well ...

The latest annual report for the Amazon.com, Inc. was released on 14th December, 2010 and covers 2009 financial year. The year officially ended or dates 31st December 2009. The report is titled ‘2009 Annual Report’ and begins with a brief statement addressed to its shareholders. Like the last thirteen annual reports since the year 1997, the report contains a brief statement as a letter directed to the firm’s shareowners which bears a signature of the firm’s founder: Jeffrey P. Bezos. The statement also shows an executive post of Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O) being held by ...