[Web4lib] Amazon's Kindle e-book reader

[Dan Lester]

Hello Lars,

Thursday, November 22, 2007, 9:20:08 PM, you wrote:

>> kindle...until I remembered that a lot of that stuff is free on 
>> the web, and I can already access it on my handheld.

> But how much longer will newspaper publishers provide that free 
> service, with only advertising money, if they can get more money 
> through a subscription deal?

The newspapers seem to be going away from subscriptions because they
can make more money from advertising.  But...would you want ads
cluttering up your kindle, and would advertisers pay for plain black
and white ads?  Neither seems likely.


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 Dan                            mailto:dan at riverofdata.com