Markinson believes the discussion has to shift from e-commerce vs. offline commerce to integrated commerce.
Among other findings from the latest Outsell study, "Device Wars, ": a possible shift in the e-reader market.
It's hard to tell how much of this is due to the recession and how much is the ongoing shift from print to e-marketing.
JVC's e-Shift pixel technology is at play here, which we first saw in consumer products with the '4K' projectors it shipped in 2011, and updated in last year's models.
He added that the shift "allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices open to multiple sources for content".
More recently, Amazon has taken advantage of the shift to digitization by developing and launching its Kindle e-reader.
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The nurse manager gets an e-mail message three hours into the shift with detailed information about hand hygiene rates, and again at the end.
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Is this slowdown due to a systemic, permanent shift (like the evolution of digital music or the e-book) or is the industry simply mimicking the overall business cycle (after all, job growth is down in many sectors of the economy today)?
Best Buy reported improving profits in the last two quarters led by a shift in sales mix from TVs and PCs to smartphones, e-readers and tablets.
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Of course, Callaway is far from the only one making this shift -- we've seen legendary newspapers make similar moves, and as e-book stores continue to grow in prominence, it's a given that paperbacks will eventually give way to whatever's next.
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What do e-tailers need to do to harness the opportunity of the tectonic shift to mobile instead of being swept away by it?
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Surrounded by computers and handheld devices at work and at home, people are accustomed to having e-mail within reach nearly all day, making it hard to shift gears on vacation, says Kate Muller, director of psychology training at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
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