First, a really good and short write-up by Bill Gates on Jeff Bezos at Time. The last paragraph in particular is interesting – Lately, Jeff’s pioneering spirit has taken him in some new directions. He would like nothing more than to be the first to provide a cheap and safe way for anyone to fly into [...]
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Nieman Journalism Lab are making an ass of themselves – to the point that perhaps they should remove ‘Journalism ‘ from their name. It takes a lot to get me mad – however, NJL have written two articles that are so ‘the world revolves around us publishers and we decide everything, and you little people should just [...]
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There’s a snippet from the Amazon Q1 2009 Earnings Call which is rather important. Listen to Mr. Bezos talk about Kindle sales (courtesy Seeking Alpha)- Were digital sales an impact or not? Jeffrey Bezos Digital sales, are you referring to Kindle sales or all digital? Digital is certainly part of the numbers. The key thing [...]
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Newspapers and bloggers alike are atwitter about two exciting new pieces of Kindle news – The Apple MediaPad. Everyone is interpreting the new Apple MediaPad (iBook perhaps) as the death of the Kindle. Stanza’s acquisition by Amazon. There are some really interesting theories as to why Amazon did it. Theories about why Amazon acquired Stanza From [...]
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Wow! Amazon made 2 changes that will impact how you load personal documents on to your Kindle / Kindle 2 a lot. For anyone who has recently sent personal documents to your Kindle, we’d like to let you know about some updates to our Personal Document Service (via Whispernet). The carrot – There is now [...]
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