Thread: Amazon to enact 70 percent revenue share for Kindle periodicals
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Old 11-09-2010, 09:35 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by kindlekitten View Post
and the rest of the story is... this will only be effective (the 70% deal) on publications that are available on; "all devices, in all locations." soooo, I wonder how many limitations that throws into the pot?
My guess is that Amazon is going to tell the magazine publishers that "if you want 70%, we need to be able to put this content on every device with Kindle software." At least, that seems to be Amazon's tactics -- a little bit of carrot combined with a little bit of stick.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some of the restrictions are from the magazine publishers rather than Amazon. For example, why sell the New Yorker with substandard formatting through Amazon, and get a tiny slice of the revenues, when they can roll their own iPhone and iPad version, make it look the way they want, and collect all the revenues?
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