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by Booktrope 11y ago
The posted article has some huge errors. It actually says, "Amazon was willing to buy a title for $14.99 and sell it for $9.99, taking a loss to grab market share and encourage adoption of its Kindle e-reader." That is complete
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by Booktrope 11y ago
When a publisher sells an ebook, they receive wholesales not retail price. Wholesale prices in the book businss range from about 35% of list (if you use a full-service distributor) to about 5o% of list (if the publisher sells directly to th
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Was Portrayal of Amazon’s Brutal Workplace on Target?(publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by Booktrope 11y ago
I think you're misreading that study. It compares the number of women estimated to have their life prolonged because of a mammogram, to the number of women estimated to have been treated unnecessarily because of a mammogram. The issue
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by Booktrope 11y ago
I am troubled by the mammogram analysis. These sorts of health care examples (mammograms, AIDs testing, etc.) are often used to explain Baysian statistics and obviously make an interesting point. But as someone below points out, these too
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by Booktrope 12y ago
I don't understand how you can say that, even if you were to search all non-black objects and none were ravens, this would prove that all ravens are black. It also might prove, there aren't any ravens. And, even if you were to fi
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by Booktrope 12y ago
I'm the 66 year old founder, Ken Shear, and our company is Booktrope (my co-founders are 54 and 45). I've been around the block a few times but YC has still been the most valuable educational experience I've ever had. I can
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by Booktrope 12y ago
Well, if he was clueless then two very large and successful tech companies had a clueless guy running their AB testing and showing great results in each context. I'm certainly not looking for "One Method for Interconnectedness Cor
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by Booktrope 12y ago
I understand if you think this is a non-issue, though I don't agree. The speaker I referenced about asked the statisticians at his company about this and they said it was a non-issue because things balanced out. He thought that was an
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by Booktrope 12y ago
The presenter I mentioned did not go into details about what interconnectedness he found, but I think it's quite obvious that people visiting a site do have influence on other visitors, which is at least a part of the underlying issue.
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by Booktrope 12y ago
If the stats aren't based on samples of real-world data, rather than very rigorously designed experimental comparisons, I think there's another reason to be wary of p-values. [Note, in what follows I probably use some terminology
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by Booktrope 12y ago
Same experience here with a MacBook Pro circa 2012. Often seems slow to re-establish network connection after sleep. I've seen this on a variety of networks. Really just an annoyance, but better management of this on my Mac would be n
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by Booktrope 12y ago
The problem with Le Guin's position is that it's so Manichean, a world composed of good guys and bad guys with no ambiguities. To her, it's either sell books like deodorant or some ideal system where it's quality, not m