This article , which came out in May 2011, seems prescient but says a lot that's controversial . Excerpt:
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I believe that what we are watching is Amazon rethinking the future of making money online. Kindle is a only a transitional reading device. It's a stop along the way toward a multifunction tablet, which is, itself, a stop along the way toward a cloud based service -- a service that stores book and music files remotely.
Some believe the Kindle advertising model, announced last month, is a first step toward a freemium business model. Marry the freemium model with a cloud based book service, and you have advertising supported books. You won't just being storing books that you purchased on Amazon's server, but, reading advertising supported ones. The latter bears some similarity to the way Dickens sold his novels -- serially, in installments or parts over time. The future of publishing is going to look more "tailored and personalized." Until the FTC clamps down on America's patchwork quilt of pro-advertiser privacy laws, revenue will flow from targeted behavioral ads.
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There's a lot there-books in the cloud, the end of the eink Kindle, ad-supported books. Read the article and tell me what you think of this vision of the future.