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What’s Amazon’s market share? 35% or 5%?

  • Amazon is a big company, but what does that mean? How big is ‘big’? What does ‘dominant’ or ‘scale’ or ‘huge’ mean when US retail is $6 trillion a year?
  • Running the numbers, Amazon has about 35% of US ecommerce. But, it competes with physical retailers as well – it competes with Macy’s, Walmart and Barnes & Noble. On that basis, Amazon’s real market share of its real target market is closer to 6% (it’s 2/3 the size of Walmart)
  • Regulators pick and choose market definitions depending on their objective, and this will probably happen to Amazon – it’s definitely dominant in books and definitely not in cars. But if we’re going to worry about the scale of the Amazon machine, which scale are we talking about? That’s a political question as much as it’s an economic one.

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TVF’s Kota Factory in pole position at IMDb’s list of top 10 series in India

Movie website IMDb which claims to have 200 million monthly visitors, today unveiled its list of Top 10 Indian Television and Web Series. It is a list as determined by IMDb customer ratings. IMDb ratings are determined by customers who rank films and TV shows on a 10 point scale. To rate a title, customers can click the “Rate This” star on any film or TV show title page on IMDb.

Complete list here at afaqs