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Posts Tagged ‘Indigo’

Greenpeace is Targeting Indigo Books and Harlequin

This just came over the wire. Greenpeace is looking for publicity. I am giving it to them. It seems a rather random selection of targets. The press release doesn’t elaborate as to why these retailers were chosen. Four of the retailers have stores at Yonge and Dundas, so I am speculating that mere convenience [...]

Google’s Secondary Search: Amazon, Customer Experience and the Almighty $$$

Google’s secondary search feature got some attention in the New York Times. In turn it bubbled up at Techcrunch.
When I first saw this feature, I thought no big deal. Google is trying to keep searchers within their ecosystem for longer. Consumers looking for sites with bad internal search will benefit. You can bypass Canadiantire.ca’s stupid [...]

Echo Chamber: Indigo Books Should Buy Borders

Michael Cairns is reading the tea leaves at his PersonaNonData blog after Borders’ latest quarterly report. I have always understood “the rumors of a cross border combination” to mean Borders would buy Indigo. Indigo rescuing Borders is a new one for me. I can’t see there being any advantage for Indigo’s business in such a [...]