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Monday, February 1, 2010
John Edwards sex tape…
Andrew Young, the former John Edwards aide is making the rounds of talk shows promoting his sensational book about that disgraced former somebody who once counted on Young’s loyalty.
His book is “The Politician: An Insider’s Account of John Edwards’s Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down.”
The Edwards/Rielle Hunter sex tape is just one of the unsavory stops along this trail of tears. Who would want to watch that? Barf-O.
John Edwards was always so smooth. Too slick. Way slippery.
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Amazon backs down…
The eBook wars get more interesting with each passing day. Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader is leading the market right now but publishers are upset at the way Amazon has been pricing Kindle downloads. Amazon has essentially been selling them for less that their cost so they can increase sales for their Kindles.
Over the weekend, Macmillan, one of the top 6 US publishers seems to have called Amazon’s bluff. Here’s more from The Telegraph:
“the pricing row over e-books between Amazon and the publishing industry suddenly turned vicious at the weekend, when Amazon pulled all Macmillan books - including, in the US, Booker prize-winner Wolf Hall - from its website temporarily.
“We have expressed our strong disagreement and the seriousness of our disagreement by temporarily ceasing the sale of all Macmillan titles,” Amazon said. “We want you to know that ultimately, however, we will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan’s terms, because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles and we will want to offer them to you even at prices we believe are needlessly high for ebooks.”
“Ultimately”, it turned out, meant as soon as we realise how cross we have made everyone. Amazon’s effort to depict itself as a victim of nasty book publishers is hard to take seriously, given the gulf between Amazon’s profitability and theirs. This is Macmillan’s account of events last week.
Amazon’s real fight is with Apple and its new iPad, which is a rival to Amazon’s Kindle. Apple seems to be allowing publishers greater freedom in the pricing of digital books, and this has not gone down well with Amazon, which wants to keep its hold on a developing market. The irony, though, is that the Apple model would probably be more profitable for Amazon, which has been losing money on e-book best-sellers in order to push sales, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It’s too early to say whether Amazon’s rapid capitulation in this instance suggests that book publishers will do a better job of keeping control of their content than the music industry.”
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