Comments on: E-Books, Business Models and Sloppy Reporting in NY Times http://mediactive.com/2009/05/17/e-books-business-models-and-sloppy-reporting-in-ny-times/ Creating a User's Guide to Democratized Media Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:16:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joe Devon http://mediactive.com/2009/05/17/e-books-business-models-and-sloppy-reporting-in-ny-times/#comment-18 Joe Devon Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:30 +0000 http://mediactive.com/2009/05/17/e-books-business-models-and-sloppy-reporting-in-ny-times/#comment-18 It's very interesting to me to see the position Amazon has taken. The Internet has changed the world because sharing information digitally is cheap. The people who controlled the distribution platforms made the money. Today they are going out of business. Amazon's Kindle is trying to do for e-books what Newspapers can no longer do with news. This is not a successful long term strategy. Amazon has many great businesses. But one day E-Book / Kindle like devices will be sold unlocked and there will be no fees for blog subscriptions, newspaper subscriptions etc... E-books will be very cheap, or else piracy will be rampant. No one can stop this from happening once the technology to read comfortably on an electronic device is a commodity... At least that's my take. It’s very interesting to me to see the position Amazon has taken. The Internet has changed the world because sharing information digitally is cheap. The people who controlled the distribution platforms made the money. Today they are going out of business.

Amazon’s Kindle is trying to do for e-books what Newspapers can no longer do with news. This is not a successful long term strategy.

Amazon has many great businesses. But one day E-Book / Kindle like devices will be sold unlocked and there will be no fees for blog subscriptions, newspaper subscriptions etc… E-books will be very cheap, or else piracy will be rampant. No one can stop this from happening once the technology to read comfortably on an electronic device is a commodity…

At least that’s my take.

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