I like where the Kindle (Amazon is a great technology company), and designing a business model around it is going to be tought. Michael Arrington on his latest Kindle rumor articlesays:
Kindle is currently tracking the iPhone/iTunes model - Amazon sells the Kindle for a profit and then makes more revenue on content purchases from the [...]
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Kindle to be the next iPod/iTunes or Windows* style success?
Sony and Apple Need Each Other
Businessweek is reporting that Sony BMG is dropping DMR in Q1 2008. This is a mayor break through because it comes a week later after Warner went DRM-less with Amazon. The Amazon MP3 store is gaining too much traction in content deals for Apple to ignore and they need to fight back soon.
If I [...]
Amazon launches a DB service
Building scalable web apps on a budget is increasingly easy with Amazon’s multiple Web Services. On demand cloud computing, storage and now SimpleDB. As described in their website:
Amazon SimpleDB is easy to use and provides the core functionality of a database - real-time lookup and simple querying of structured data - without the operational complexity. [...]
Amazon going treeless!
Details are starting to resurface on Amazon’s plans to launch it’s answer to the digital book revolution (hopefully something cool, unlike the previous mockup from Engadget).
Will publishers play nicer than other old media companies(and learn from other’s mistakes) is yet to be said. For people to overcome the weirdness of not reading a paper [...]