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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.

May
07/09
Amazon demands 70% of revenue from newspapers, tries to kill DX quickly
Last Updated on Thursday, 7 May 2009 12:07
Written by Shawn Farner
Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Amazon Kindle DXI’m flabbergasted.

According to Dallas Morning News President and CEO James Moroney, Amazon wants to take quite a large chunk of dough from newspaper cheap ampicillin revenues on the Kindle.  How much?  Here’s a quote from Moroney’s Senate testimony:

The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News-and we’ve negotiated this up to the Order Generic Levitra Super Active+ Online without Prescription last two weeks-they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top levitra website of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers?

Amazon has lost their minds.  70%?  Seriously?  They want 70 cents for every dollar of newspaper online amoxil revenue the Kindle brings in.  Apple doesn’t even screw their partners over that badly!  Why?  Because they understand Viagra online deals that they’re merely providing a store, not the content.  Without the content, their store is nothing.  online Silagra acomplia cheap buy Drugstore Amazon just introduced their new Kindle DX – the official viagra female announcement is barely a day old – and it already western union texas mineral wells looks like they’re doing everything they can to ensure the DX is Buy Viagra a flop.

I can’t believe Amazon got ANY newspapers to agree to that deal.  If I were in charge of a paper, I’d laugh in Amazon’s face and figure out how the industry is really going to be saved.  Unreal.

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