I've personally read the "Box: How the shipping container..." book. Its a pretty good read, it talks about the history of caravel ships's cargo load eventually turning into standarized freight containers. It talks about how pulley systems eventually turn into cranes used in ports. And the logistics of extracting freight inside of the hull of a ship (system is like a claw machine in an arcade). It gaves you the history of how the box came to be, by solving issues every shipper faced.
As to things related to distribution logistics, my favorite is anything from the national association of distributors. I've read 1 or 2 books there, the content there is topnotch https://www.naw.org/. Its got some good very specific applicable MBA-level topics on there, such as pricing schemas and optimizations.
Ecommerce books I really don't see the point. This is an evolving field. Your exposed to ecommerce best practices everyday. My favorite go to has always been things like mcmastercarr.com, amazon, and a few private-based companies. The recommended read for ecommerce is the amazon book for something that's more of a narrative. As a side note, analyzing ecommerce sites is also how I learned a lot of best practices for UX, frontend design, and marketing (just fire up the debugger, you'd be surprised how different companies do frontend in different ways).
Hardware - A really good book I've read is called "Code: the hidden language" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JDMPOK2/ref=oh_aui_sear.... It talks about how software integrates with hardware, to understanding how morse code, the decimal system was created, and leading up to flipflop gates / and embedded processing. First half of book is readable by anyone, 2nd half requires a CS degree to understand
Database design schemas - I have a few of these books, I personally prefer anything from kimball group here. https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Definitive-Dim.... Airtable has some really great database design schema blog posts as well, including case studies from WeWork.
Finally as a side note, depending on the industry, you might find better youtube channels over book content, better content on private sites / blogs, or better content on reddit forums.
One of the best ways of learning an industry is to find what the standard software is used. You can find it in a google search usually. Just pretend you own a company in the industry. What would you search up? Find the top 2 or 3 softwares used in that industry. Then, you go to youtube search "Software tutorial". Binge watch it at 4x speed, and find the recommended intro playlist. Software tells a rich history of why certain things came to be, and good UX made software highlights best practices in that industry. Check forums related to it, and you can find a lot about how an industry operates.
As to things related to distribution logistics, my favorite is anything from the national association of distributors. I've read 1 or 2 books there, the content there is topnotch https://www.naw.org/. Its got some good very specific applicable MBA-level topics on there, such as pricing schemas and optimizations.
Ecommerce books I really don't see the point. This is an evolving field. Your exposed to ecommerce best practices everyday. My favorite go to has always been things like mcmastercarr.com, amazon, and a few private-based companies. The recommended read for ecommerce is the amazon book for something that's more of a narrative. As a side note, analyzing ecommerce sites is also how I learned a lot of best practices for UX, frontend design, and marketing (just fire up the debugger, you'd be surprised how different companies do frontend in different ways).
Private labelling & importing I've read a few. I found this one to be helpful when I first started private labelling https://www.amazon.com/Bible-complete-beginners-successful-i... , it talks about chinese culture and negotiation tactics
Fintech I am not really up to date on so I couldn't really tell you.
Logistics - I think this is something best learned by experience. But, the recommended standard text is this https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0989490602/ref=oh_aui_sear.... I've read bits and pieces here and there, its more of a reference manual.
Hardware - A really good book I've read is called "Code: the hidden language" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JDMPOK2/ref=oh_aui_sear.... It talks about how software integrates with hardware, to understanding how morse code, the decimal system was created, and leading up to flipflop gates / and embedded processing. First half of book is readable by anyone, 2nd half requires a CS degree to understand
Database design schemas - I have a few of these books, I personally prefer anything from kimball group here. https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Definitive-Dim.... Airtable has some really great database design schema blog posts as well, including case studies from WeWork.
Finally as a side note, depending on the industry, you might find better youtube channels over book content, better content on private sites / blogs, or better content on reddit forums.
One of the best ways of learning an industry is to find what the standard software is used. You can find it in a google search usually. Just pretend you own a company in the industry. What would you search up? Find the top 2 or 3 softwares used in that industry. Then, you go to youtube search "Software tutorial". Binge watch it at 4x speed, and find the recommended intro playlist. Software tells a rich history of why certain things came to be, and good UX made software highlights best practices in that industry. Check forums related to it, and you can find a lot about how an industry operates.