Some Thoughts On Kindle
What is Amazon Kindle?
“ is a revolutionary portable reader that wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines and blogs to a crisp, high-resolution electronic paper display that looks and reads like real paper, even in bright sunlight.
Kindle customers, no matter where they are in the U.S., can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store and download new content — all without a PC or a WiFi hot spot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so there are no monthly wireless bills and no service commitments for customers. The Kindle Store contains over 90,000 books that can be purchased and delivered wirelessly to Kindle, each in less than a minute. Customers can choose from hundreds of top newspapers, magazines and blogs and have their subscriptions auto-delivered wirelessly. All New York Times Best Sellers and New Releases are $9.99, unless marked otherwise.
At 10.3 ounces, Kindle is lighter and thinner than a paperback book, carries two hundred books, and includes built-in access to The New Oxford American Dictionary and wireless access to the Earth’s biggest encyclopedia, Wikipedia.org.”
Somebody is thinking out of the box… David Kiley at BusinessWeek speaks his thoughts on Kindle;
The Bottom Line
“Books don’t have to end, and neither will my author’s revenue stream. If I sell my Kindle book to a reader for $9.99, he has saved perhaps $20 on the price of a hardcover book. Let’s say I sell 40,000 copies of the book, and further assume that I can get at least 10,000 of the buyers to subscribe to periodically updated chapters and podcasts, or perhaps a blog, for an additional $9.99. As an author, I would like to control that end of the revenue stream, which I don’t need a big publisher for anyway. That’s another $100,000 in revenue to me, minus my costs and Amazon’s cut.”
Tags: Amazon-Kindle, Kindle-Book-Reader, Portable-Reader, Wireless-Reading-DeviceRelated Stories
POSTED IN: Online Money, Resources
1 opinion for Some Thoughts On Kindle
gomobi.org
Dec 5, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Personally I doubt the necessary of such kind of device. I prefer to read e-book on my cell phone with Anyview Java e-book reader. Add e-book to PSP will also be a good idea.
Have an opinion? Leave a comment: