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Follow Up: Amazon Publishing and E-Book Pricing

Last October I posted about Amazon’s foray into book publishing in order to get around fixed pricing agreements on e-books. An example showed the same price for a paperback book as the Kindle e-book, despite the added costs of actually creating the book. Several news sources are reporting that the Department of Justice has looked […]

Kindle Fire: It’s a Cloud Device, Not a Tablet

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

Kindle Fire: It's a Cloud Device, Not a Tablet

A while ago I blogged about the Kindle Fire and how excited I was about their Silk Browser.  Well, I ended up getting one and have had two months to really dig into it.  Here’s what I discovered, it’s really a cloud device rather than a true tablet. I’ll start with what you expect from […]

Amazon’s New Business Model

How did Amazon get its start? The business model originally focused on selling books. Then Amazon moved into general retailing, where it experienced rapid growth and success. Now it is moving in new directions that play to its software strengths – content distribution and creation. Technically, Amazon has always been a content distributor. Authors wrote books […]

Kindle Fire = iPad Killer?

The much heralded Amazon Android-based tablet, the Kindle Fire, has now been released and much was made in its pre-release state on how it was going to be the next iPad killer, titles previously held by the Motorola Xoom and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.  Now that the device has seen the light of day, is […]

Forget Kindle Fire, Amazon Introduced a Cloud Browser

So Amazon just introduced a new device called the Kindle Fire which is an Android based 7 inch tablet.  At $199, the price makes it worth looking at. However, I think a number of people will miss perhaps an even bigger story. Amazon released Amazon Silk at the same time. Amazon Silk is a cloud […]