Thread: Amazon to Papers: Give us 70% of your revenue!
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Old 05-11-2009, 11:43 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
Didn't see this posted here, but the Kindle DX doesn't sound like such a great deal for the newspaper industry:

James Moroney, President and CEO of the Dallas Morning News, at the Senate hearing last week:

"... the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News-and we've negotiated this up to the last two weeks-they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers?"

http://gizmodo.com/5244171/amazon-wa...e-distribution
If they're willing to put ONTV in as part of the subscription, I'd take it! Our local yellow-rag (used to be a decent paper, too - the Sacramento Bee) has gotten as low as charging $0.25 each week for the weekly TV programming guide. Cheap-ass newspaper. And they're still laying off and shedding content pages!

Derek
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