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Amazon’s Ad-supported Kindle Price: Too High?

April 12, 2011

TUAW on the release of an ad-supported Kindle from Amazon: “Still, the $114 price point seems a little silly; $99 would be a much better psychological buy-in point.” I think that $25 is a fair reflection of the value of the ads. Remember, these ads are home-screen only, and not in the books. Pundits constantly [...]

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In praise of Kindle

November 13, 2010

Getting the out-of-box experience right with consumer electronics is hard, which is why so many companies get it wrong. With the Kindle, Amazon has produced a customer experience that Apple would be proud of. In fact, it’s arguable that the integrated experience of Kindle is actually better than anything Apple has done. Open the box, [...]

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Amazon caves in to Macmillan, pouts and sulks

January 31, 2010

Macmillan E-books – kindle Discussion Forum: We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles, and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for e-books. Someone should tell them [...]

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Amazon seems keen to try out new models for books

July 4, 2009

Amazon appears to be applying for a patent on inserting adverts into ebooks, and predictably some people aren’t particularly keen on the idea. But it seems to me that Amazon wants to do is explore different ways to get people to buy books. Imagine this: when buying an ebook at Amazon, you get two options. [...]

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How the Amazon debacle shows the dark side of social networks

April 15, 2009

There’s no point in recapping how the “Amazon de-lists GLBT books” meme developed, because other people have done a far better job than I. But what it illustrates ably, I think, is the dark side of social networks and how they spread news. There’s a meme which appeared a while ago about a statement a [...]

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