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Does anyone know if there's a correlation between how well a pub does with a one-shot in the print Amazon store vs. Kindle?
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As Rick said in the webinar, demand is
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I gather there is not yet a market for selling reports through e-readers? (the kinds of things we'd sell for $100-1000)
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You’ll find that people are still buying $100-$1000 reports in
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Since the Apple Tablet is so expensive, do you see 3g carrier subsidies to help mitigate costs and promote market saturation?
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Industry analysts are pretty much dead split on this topic.
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Will Amazon Kindle accept ePubs format?
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Eventually they will have to if they don’t want to become an obsolete platform. Right now Amazon essentially controls the content by making it difficult
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If we have both issues and reports/books, would it make sense to offer the reports/books on Kindle and the issues on a platform with a higher remit rate?
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Yes. We'd be
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What are the highest price products so far observed on these platforms?
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Books are at the bottom of your paid “media pyramid” and they tend to do the best on ereaders,
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How about making free e-zine content available via Kindle? The Digital Text Platform via which you can upload publications to sell doesn't seem to accommodate this type of content?
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Anything you’re
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Address the revenue model from Amazon, it pays the publisher a little amount, will this change?
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Amazon is already paying 60-70 percent to book publishers. It’s the magazine and newspaper publishers
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Kindle document format is simplistic, HTML 1.0 or so, no table support, why?
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Kindle seems to be keeping the formatting as simple as they possibly can, and we expect that as
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I have heard you say many a time that (most) people aren't willing to pay for HTML content (as opposed to a PDF). Given your comment about the low pricing