Lots of interesting updates from Mr. Bezos on Kindle DX and Kindles (from an interview with Steven Levy at the Wired Business Conference on Monday) -
Mr. Bezos on Google Books Settlement
He’s obviously not in favor of it -
Google has been attempting to push forward its Book Search initiative, which could potentially give the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant exclusive access to digital editions of some out-of-print books. That could, as Levy pointed out, get in the way of Amazon’s goal of offering every book ever printed in every language on the Kindle and its new, bigger Kindle DX sibling. ”There are many forces of work looking at that and saying it doesn’t seem right that you should do something, kind of get a prize for violating a large series of copyrights,” Bezos said.
Courtesy Caroline McCarthy at CNet News.
Amazon considered a Kindle Subscription Model
PCMag reports that Amazon weighed a subscription option that would be either a $60 per month data plan or would require users to buy a certian number of books per month. They are open to it if customers ask for it -
Amazon considered a cell phone pricing plan that would either lock users into a $60/month data plan or require them to buy a certain number of books per month, but Bezos said he preferred to just “tell people the actual cost of the device.”
“We’re willing to offer choice and if customers want [a subscription or data plan], I don’t see any difficulty with doing that, but I like the cognitive simplicity of the current model,” he said
Kindle Books for $9.99 on various devices
Teleread mentions rumors of ePub support. Thye also mention something rather interesting i.e. Amazon want to create kindle books that work on any device -
Bezos, in a similar vein, said he wanted Kindle books on a number of devices, “at the same $9.99 price points,” even if it meant that the book people and hardware people were competing against each other.
Finally, GigaOm focuses on what Mr. Bezos said about Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and that’s worth a look too.
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