Comments on: Never’s a Long Time: Amazon May Not Release Full Kindle Sales Data, Ever, For Competitive Reasons http://paidcontent.org/2009/05/28/419-nevers-a-long-time-amazon-may-not-release-full-kindle-sales-data-ever-f/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 10:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vanderleun http://paidcontent.org/2009/05/28/419-nevers-a-long-time-amazon-may-not-release-full-kindle-sales-data-ever-f/#comment-70868 Fri, 29 May 2009 01:58:01 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/05/28/419-nevers-a-long-time-amazon-may-not-release-full-kindle-sales-data-ever-f/#comment-70868 Yes, well, okay Jeff. But it has always seemed to me that another more compelling reason to hold the "fantastic" kindle sales number back is that they are not as fantastic as people think.

]]> By: nathanr http://paidcontent.org/2009/05/28/419-nevers-a-long-time-amazon-may-not-release-full-kindle-sales-data-ever-f/#comment-70867 Thu, 28 May 2009 23:35:59 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2009/05/28/419-nevers-a-long-time-amazon-may-not-release-full-kindle-sales-data-ever-f/#comment-70867 The newspaper industry should stop complaining about Google and focus on Amazon. Amazon is starving newspapers & publishers of valuable customer information, playing "bad-partner" in terms of negotiating leverage for revenue share & pricing and will ultimately be out maneuvered by consumers finding less expensive alternatives to content or newer, shinier devices. Amazon should learn the lesson of the open web.

ps: the iPhone & Blackberry apps for the major national papers provide free access, give the content originators customer information and monetization moments. ditch the kindle subscriptions for the iPhone…really save yourself the $14.99/month.

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