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...text tour, the student may be turned off." Also, Web tours can offer more details than the glossy print brochures schools send out. Jeff Fieldson, whose daughter Emily applied to schools far from their Nashville, Tenn., home, said the Web was particularly helpful for learning about campus organizations. "The catalog just gives you a list of student groups," he says, "but the Web tours link to the groups' own home pages...
...strength of download sales alone. Itching to show they're ahead of the trend, European distributors held a Digital Download Day last week, inviting people to visit online vendors at www.digitaldownloadday.com and help themselves to a free 35's worth-30 downloads or 300 streams-from a catalog of 170,000 tracks and 7,500 artists from all five major record companies." The critical thing for consumers is having the chart catalog all in one place," says Charles Grimsdale, CEO of OD2, platform providers for major download sites like Dotmusic and HMV, who expects 100,000 to take...
...Ottos' mammoth catalog and Internet retailing operation traces its lineage back to a postwar shoe factory in HAMBURG. Today the family also owns the majority of furniture seller Crate & Barrel...
Michael Otto, 59, has aggressively pushed to countries beyond Germany, including the U.S., where he has a majority stake in Crate & Barrel. (The family separately owns the Spiegel catalog group, which includes Spiegel, Eddie Bauer and Newport News, an online women's-clothing retailer.) Otto has also invested heavily in technology, including e-commerce, to improve efficiency, cut costs and reach out to customers. Last year the company turned a profit for the first time on its online sales, which reached $1.9 billion. Otto boasts that it's the second largest Internet retailer after Amazon.com The advantages of running...
...could conceivably mean that professors have better information,” Lewis says. “For some extent it would depend on how seriously undergraduates took the exercise, how seriously they looked through the catalog when they chose their courses...