The news papers should learn the lesson here.
For so many years, they act like ostrich burying head in sand, regardless the
fast changing internet.
if they feel harmed so much, they should team up to boost other Eink producer, like sony, irex, hanlin...
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Originally Posted by Sonist
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 |