Joshua Gillin
Apr. 5, 2013
11:15 am
Business Insider | Bloomberg
Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget has revealed Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is a principal contributor to a pool of $5 million in venture capital for the business-news website.
Blodget revealed the news to employees
in a Friday memo:
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 6, 2012
11:27 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 30, 2012
11:23 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 2, 2012
12:10 pm
Flurry | China Economic News Service
More evidence that Amazon’s Kindle Fire is pulling far ahead of other Android-powered tablets: A study finds the average Amazon app store user spent almost four times more money on in-app purchases than a … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 30, 2011
9:26 am
If you’re like me, by now you’ve read more than enough uninspired recaps of what happened in 2011 or wild guesses at what’s in store for 2012. So here’s something a little different.
I looked back at the world of … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 23, 2011
8:27 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 21, 2011
4:20 pm
CNET
Until today, people with iPads or iPhones could use Amazon’s Kindle app only to read e-books. But a newly released version 2.9 of the app adds access to the over 400 magazines and newspapers that are available on Kindle … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Nov. 28, 2011
11:57 am
Guardian
Andrew Rashbass
tells Roy Greenslade that U.S. readers of The Economist expect to largely abandon the print product in the next two years, moving quickly to tablets. Greenslade reports:
The Economist's own research reveals that 28% of its readers already own a tablet, with a further 23% expecting to own one within a year.
A survey of the Economist's US subscribers asked those aged over 40 how they read the Economist – more than 95% said they read it in print. But when asked how they expect to read it in two years' time, the number expecting to do so in print fell to 35%.
"I've never seen a statistic like it," Rashbass said.
Related: Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab points out a problem for news organizations trying to plan
investments in e-books and Kindle editions:
Amazon never discloses how many e-readers it has sold. "If sales numbers really are impressive," he challenges Amazon, "shout them from the rooftops!"
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Jeff Sonderman
Oct. 3, 2011
12:16 pm
Monday Note
Frédéric Filloux speculates how publishers could take advantage of opportunities presented by Amazon's
new lineup of Kindle products. One idea is for publishers to give readers an e-ink Kindle (any model except the new Fire) with a two-year subscription — if Amazon lets them sell the "Special ScreenSavers Offers" ads that display when the device is idle. Another idea is for the device to come pre-loaded with with free e-books or trial subscriptions in order to retain new Kindle owners as long-term customers. Neither of these is possible now, but Filloux writes that publishers willing to work creatively with Amazon might be able to enact programs like this.
|| Earlier: Media companies may have a love-hate relationship with Amazon; 5 key questions
about the Kindle Fire
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 29, 2011
3:46 pm
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