Comments on: Bezos, Are You Listening? http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/bezos-are-you-listening/ Entrepreneurship, marketing, personal devlelopment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:27:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charley Forness http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/bezos-are-you-listening/#comment-8030 Charley Forness Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:09:11 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1609#comment-8030 I had the same thoughts as commenter 2, when initially reading this, that the difference is that Amazon charges for each book. But then I thought, what if they didn't? What if they had subscriptions? Maybe not the same as the "unlimited" model of Netflix. But they could have a $16.95/month thing and you get to download four books. It's a stiff discount for Amazon, but you would get the residual revenues. I think Kindle books are too pricey anyways. For some of the books I buy, the softcover is only a dollar more. There is no way a Kindle book should be costing $9.99. BTW, I told my wife that I either wanted a Kindle or an IPOD touch for Father's Day (our first with the birth of our triplets six weeks ago). She got me the IPOD touch and I am so happy she did. You can read your Kindle books on it, as well as use the IPOD Touch for all your music, videos, web surfing, games, even mobile Twitter and Facebook. I had the same thoughts as commenter 2, when initially reading this, that the difference is that Amazon charges for each book. But then I thought, what if they didn’t? What if they had subscriptions? Maybe not the same as the “unlimited” model of Netflix. But they could have a $16.95/month thing and you get to download four books. It’s a stiff discount for Amazon, but you would get the residual revenues. I think Kindle books are too pricey anyways. For some of the books I buy, the softcover is only a dollar more. There is no way a Kindle book should be costing $9.99.

BTW, I told my wife that I either wanted a Kindle or an IPOD touch for Father’s Day (our first with the birth of our triplets six weeks ago). She got me the IPOD touch and I am so happy she did. You can read your Kindle books on it, as well as use the IPOD Touch for all your music, videos, web surfing, games, even mobile Twitter and Facebook.

]]> By: Dave Aron http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/bezos-are-you-listening/#comment-8027 Dave Aron Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:52:09 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1609#comment-8027 Great column, and very clever, with the fear that my virtual mother is looking over my shoulder asking me if I've finished my reading for my book report yet. "What page are you on today, dear? How much more do you have yet to read?" While we're on the subject, how far are we from reversing your idea, and having Netflix borrow from Amazon, with their own version of the Kindle, upon which you can quickly, wirelessly, and remotely download movies and TV shows for viewing on a device specifically made for this purpose? Great column, and very clever, with the fear that my virtual mother is looking over my shoulder asking me if I’ve finished my reading for my book report yet.

“What page are you on today, dear? How much more do you have yet to read?”

While we’re on the subject, how far are we from reversing your idea, and having Netflix borrow from Amazon, with their own version of the Kindle, upon which you can quickly, wirelessly, and remotely download movies and TV shows for viewing on a device specifically made for this purpose?

]]> By: Ceres http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/bezos-are-you-listening/#comment-8025 Ceres Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:16:36 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1609#comment-8025 While I agree w/ you that it's a big miss, the big difference between Netflix's way and Amazon's way is the pricing model. What you suggested works well with the subscription model that is Netflix. It will not work as well w/ Amazon because each e-book downloaded will incur additional cost. While I agree w/ you that it’s a big miss, the big difference between Netflix’s way and Amazon’s way is the pricing model. What you suggested works well with the subscription model that is Netflix. It will not work as well w/ Amazon because each e-book downloaded will incur additional cost.

]]> By: Bupbabe http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/bezos-are-you-listening/#comment-8024 Bupbabe Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:17 +0000 http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/?p=1609#comment-8024 Very smart idea. One small grammatical note: 'queue' instead of 'cue' Very smart idea. One small grammatical note: ‘queue’ instead of ‘cue’

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