Obviously, if short-term profit is all that matters, Apple is winning by a mile. Apple has generated more than $73 billion of profit over the span of this chart, while Amazon is around $2 billion.
Yeah, that’s insane.
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“In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.”
Read more about how Apple and Amazon security flaws led to the EPIC HACKING of our very own Mat Honan [@mat].](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8czrhMqw31r69k7do1_250.jpg)
“In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed.”
Read more about how Apple and Amazon security flaws led to the EPIC HACKING of our very own Mat Honan [@mat].
(Source: Wired)
Survey: “Do you own an Amazon Kindle?” 2%: “I don’t know”
(Source: madmartell, via situationvacant)
Ebooks Made of YouTube Comments Invade Amazon Kindle Store
From the press release:
The Internet slang of YouTube comments is treated as fresh dialogue, and sold through Amazon.com in the form of massive, self-generated e-books. In an auto-cannibalistic model, user generated content is sold back to the users themselves, parasitically exploiting both corporations: YouTube and Amazon.
In interviews, Amazon executives cast their new effort as an experiment in the booming world of e-books, not a plan to displace the Big Six—Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin, Hachette, and Macmillan. “What we’re building is more like an in-house laboratory where authors and editors and marketers can test new ideas,” says Jeff Belle, vice-president of Amazon Publishing and Kirshbaum’s boss. “Success to us means working with authors who want to find new ways to connect with more readers.” Talk like that hasn’t mollified publishers, and it’s easy to see why. They’re trying to protect a century-old business model—and their role as nurturers of literary culture—from encroachment by a company that consistently reimagines how industries can be run more efficiently. Book publishing, an inefficient industry if there ever was one, seems ripe for reimagining.
(via the-feature)
