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May
14/09
Amazon lets publishers sell blog subscriptions for Kindle
Last Updated on Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:06
Written by Shawn Farner
Thursday, May 14th, 2009

buy amoxicillin ampicillin style=”margin: 5px 10px;” title=”gizHQ on Kindle” src=”http://www.gizhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/kindleshot-244×300.png” alt=”gizHQ on Kindle” width=”171″ generic levitra price height=”210″ />Amazon has introduced online levitra target=”_blank”>Kindle Publishing for Blogs, a Cialis more simple way for bloggers to be included in the Kindle’s content Viagra online distribution system.  For bloggers, it is another distribution channel and (smaller) source Cialis online of revenue.  For blog readers, it means a greater selection of blogs to choose from.  tadalafil For Amazon?  CHA-CHING.

Amazon is currently taking a 70 percent cut on blog subscription sales.  Subscription prices are set by Amazon and could be priced at either $0.99 or $1.99 a month.  So, for example, if you chose to subscribe to gizHQ Generic Levitra Online Pharmacy | Buy Levitra | Cheap Levitra | Order Generic Levitra Online without Prescription on your Kindle (yeah, we’re in there online cheap buy Drugstore acomplia – $1.99/mo.), Amazon would take home $1.39.  How much would we bank?  About $0.60.

Aside from giving the content creator a weak 30 percent, the new system could present an opportunity for blogs to tap into new audiences and become more widely read, and I’m all for that.  All Amazon needs to do now is convince buyers that $359 and $489 are fair prices for ebook western union virginia falls church readers.

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May
09/09
Amazon’s Kindle DX: Priced to (barely) sell
Last Updated on Saturday, 9 May 2009 01:00
Written by Shawn Farner
Saturday, May 9th, 2009

Amazon Kindle DXBuy Cialis width=”180″ height=”240″ />PC World’s Paul Boutin has written buy ampicillin online a great article talking about Amazon’s Kindle DX.  He hits the nail on the head several times, pointing out how the DX is nothing revolutionary – it’s just a Kindle 2 with a bigger screen.  What it does have exclusively – a PDF reader, for example – is nothing that the smaller Kindles can’t do now, which raises a few eyebrows.  What is keeping Cheap Levitra Amazon from updating their Kindle 2 firmware to include the PDF reader?

Money, probably.

The Kindle DX is still black-and-white (something even newspapers Kamagra Gold viagra for women online can out-do) and if you thought $359 was a lot of money for a Kindle 2, you might need to sit down – amoxil online the Kindle Drugstore buy acomplia cheap online DX is priced at a whopping $489.  Yeah, you read that right.  It will cost you half a grand to buy the thing and that’s not even factoring in newspaper subscriptions and ebook purchases.  Outrageous.

Boutin’s best line in the whole article comes when he is talking about the price.

There’ll be a lot of talk today about how Amazon is revolutionizing the publishing industry. Don’t believe it until the first month’s sales are tallied. For all the proselytizing tech people do about the death of print, the DX’s XL-sized price tag unintentionally proves what a technological feat a printed $1 copy of USA Today is.

If DX sales are successful, I will thoroughly be surprised.  I’m pretty confident that newspapers and magazines can be saved.  I’m also western levitra Brand Viagra on line union texas san antonio 2 pretty confident that this is not the answer.  Until a solution becomes apparent, you might as well stick to buying newspapers the old buy levitra fashioned way.

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