Updates

  1. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  2. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  3. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  4. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  5. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  6. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  7. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  8. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  9. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  10. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  11. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  12. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  13. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  14. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  15. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  16. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Retail

7 companies holding 25 books.

CostcoA famously press-shy warehouse club: despite enormous investor interest there is almost no serious book-length literature about it.1 book
IKEAA privately held, deliberately opaque retailer; most English-language books are authorized or design-historical rather than investigative.4 books
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L.L.BeanL.L.Bean sells outdoor clothing and gear by catalogue, online, and from its Maine stores, and stayed family-owned with a long-standing returns…1 book
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R.C. Willey Home FurnishingsR.C.1 book
Sears, RoebuckThe dominant American retailer of the twentieth century; the best books are from before the collapse, and the Lampert era lacks a definitive history.7 books
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Trader Joe'sTrader Joe's stocks roughly 4,000 items against 30,000 or more at a conventional supermarket, sells about 80 percent private label, buys direct from…2 books
WalmartThe largest retailer in the world; the literature splits between Sam Walton's operating story and critical work on supplier and labor power.9 books

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