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Sunday, Jun 21
CHARTS OF THE WEEK: MySpace's User Engagement Stinks, Broadband Thriving
CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone App And Kindle Stores Are Bigger Than YouTube CHART OF THE DAY: MySpace's 'Horrendous' User Engagement CHART OF THE DAY: Broadband Thriving Despite Economic Collapse CHART OF THE DAY: Why Investing In The Internet Is Like Investing In The Cement Business Follow...
Tuesday, Jun 16
Watch A Kindle DX Survive A 30-Inch Fall
Not quite as entertaining as the "Will It Blend?" series, but Amazon (AMZN) has been subjecting its Kindle e-book readers to a drop test -- and publishing the slow-motion videos -- since it started the product line. Here's the latest, where Amazon drops a new, big, sold-out ('til next week...
Apple Treats Third-Party Developers Like Garbage
HuffPo will spend some of its $25 million getting into tech news [BoomTown]The Big Kindle sells out [Seattle Business Journal]Microsoft sues three over click fraud [WSJ]Web ads can sometimes carry viruses [WSJ]About.com adds celebrity experts [PaidContent]YouTube tests letting u...
Monday, Jun 15
CHART OF THE DAY: iPhone App And Kindle Stores Are Bigger Than YouTube
Goldman Sachs analyst James Mitchell projects that both the iPhone and Kindle stores will generate more gross revenue than YouTube this year. And Apple's net revenue -- the 30% it takes from transactions -- could overtake YouTube in 2010, he predicts. (And that's not even including the h...
Friday, May 8
Apple's Media Tablet Will Beat Netbooks, Kindle
It sounds like Apple's "media pad" or "iPod touch HD" -- supposedly in development -- could do all of those well. If priced right, and designed as well as Apple's other recent portables, it could do very well -- zooming past netbooks and e-book readers on sales charts. See Also:
Thursday, May 7
CNBC Host Furious About New Amazon Kindle
CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera is furious -- furious! -- that Amazon (AMZN) announced a new, big-screen Kindle yesterday, just three months after the smaller, cheaper Kindle 2 came out. Amazon Kindle DX A Bigger, Better E-Book Reader (AMZN)Photos Of Amazon's New Kindle DX (AMZN)10 Th...
Wednesday, May 6
Dallas Morning News Whines To Congress About Amazon's Extortionate Kindle Terms
Specifically, Amazon takes 70% of the subscription revenue; the paper gets 30%. As Moroney complained to Congress this afternoon, that's not going to save his paper. (It's going to be awesome for Amazon, however--see below). We'd also point out that a 30% share of his Amazon Kindle subsc...
Amazon Kindle DX A Bigger, Better E-Book Reader
Amazon's (AMZN) new Kindle DX is noticeably bigger and more expensive than the flagship Kindle 2. But it's a very good e-book reader that many people will want to buy. Video: Hands On With The Amazon Kindle DX (AMZN)Photos Of Amazon's New Kindle DX (AMZN)Kindle Books Now A Shocking 35% Of Sal...
Tuesday, May 5
New York Times To Offer Kindle-With-Your-Subscription Deals
See Also: Printing The New York Times Costs Twice As Much As Giving Each Subscriber A Free Kindle See Also: Kindle Books Now A Shocking 35% Of Sales When Kindle Version AvailableAmazon CEO Jeff Bezos Unveils Big-Screen Kindle DX (AMZN)
Monday, Mar 23
Opinion: 10 Things We Love And Hate About Amazon's Kindle 2
New books are cheaper on the Kindle than on paper. Makes up for the $360 you have to drop to get a Kindle in the first place. Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, for instance, costs $17 in hardcover at Amazon, but is $10 for the Kindle. The Host is $5 cheaper on the Kindle, too.
Wednesday, Mar 4
Kindle iPhone App Launches, E-Book Sales To Jump?
That was quick: A week after the Amazon Kindle 2 started shipping, Amazon's Kindle iPhone app is now available for free download. Amazon Caves In To Publishers On Kindle Robot Voice (AMZN)Another Kindle Projection: 500,000 Sales This Year (AMZN)What Do You Want To Know About Amazon's Ki...
Saturday, Feb 28
Amazon Caves In To Book Publishers On Robot Voice Feature
We'd also point you to Farhad Manjoo's article for Slate, where he argues that the book publishing industry is on the brink of making the same mistake the record industry did. By giving so much power to Amazon -- and making sure Kindle e-books are proprietary, protected, and not easy to use e...
Wednesday, Feb 25
Kindle 2 Rips Off Authors And Publishers, Says Authors Guild
The Kindle 2 is a portable, wireless, paperback-size device onto which people can download a virtual library of digitalized titles. Amazon sells these downloads, and where the books are under copyright, it pays royalties to the authors and publishers.
Monday, Feb 9
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Unveils Kindle 2 (AMZN)
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos showed off the company's new Kindle 2 e-book reader at a press event in New York. Here's the press release and some video. More: Kindle 2 looks good, but still a niche gadget. 10:34 103 of 110 NYT best sellers.
Monday, Aug 11
Citi: Yep, The Kindle's A Huge Hit. $1 Billion For Amazon In 2010 (AMZN)
Wildly Bullish Analyst: Kindle is New iPod, Amazon Will Sell $2.5 Billion In eBooks By 2012 Found! A Real Amazon Kindle User The Kindle vs. The Gadget Hall Of Fame: How Will Amazon's Sales Stack Up? SAI Tech Tips: A New Use For Your Kindle
