03 6 / 2012
Ads Coming To Amazon Kindle Fire
If the economics work for the user, advertiser, and Amazon, then awesome.
But it’s a careful balance.
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10 5 / 2012
Harry Potter Coming To Kindle
Does this mean Pottermore did not do as well as they wanted? Or do they just want to reach a broader muggle audience?
I felt like this is when Radiohead finally started selling In Rainbows through normal channels after all the die-hards had finished buying/downloading directly from their site.
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09 4 / 2012
Amazon Needs To Get More Social
Nice post on how Amazon, despite its success, is dragging behind on social. Reminds me of the iTunes conundrum.
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02 4 / 2012
Amazon Giving Newspapers A Hard Time
It sounds as though Amazon is facing some issues managing an influx of Kindle newspaper and magazines that include both content feeds and digital replicas.
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02 4 / 2012
Closed Is The New Open For E-Bookstores
We’re heading to a world where there are just a handful of influential bookstores (Amazon, Apple, Nook…) and one by one, the principles of open access are disappearing. Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon.
This is the Google dilemma as well - how to you have an open search engine for the web that simultaneously promotes your own brand? You can’t. Period.
Same goes for Apple, Amazon, B&N - a choice must be made: Be objective or don’t, but don’t pretend to be one and then actually be the other.
Side note: Publishers have given these companies the keys to the castle. Just amazing how helpless the actual content creators make themselves.
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