Comments on: Amazon Demands 70 Percent of Kindle Newspaper Revenues http://pulse2.com/2009/05/07/amazon-demands-70-percent-of-kindle-newspaper-revenues/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:47:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Update — Kindle & the Future of Journalism — The Late Age of Print http://pulse2.com/2009/05/07/amazon-demands-70-percent-of-kindle-newspaper-revenues/comment-page-1/#comment-27804 Update — Kindle & the Future of Journalism — The Late Age of Print Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=15007#comment-27804 [...] this information has been circulating for some time now, although I only learned of it recently, in Malcolm Gladwell’s insightful review and critique [...] [...] this information has been circulating for some time now, although I only learned of it recently, in Malcolm Gladwell’s insightful review and critique [...]

]]> By: May 8, 2009 | next media update http://pulse2.com/2009/05/07/amazon-demands-70-percent-of-kindle-newspaper-revenues/comment-page-1/#comment-26795 May 8, 2009 | next media update Fri, 08 May 2009 17:10:26 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=15007#comment-26795 [...] Heard: Amazon Demands 70 Percent of Kindle Newspaper Revenues PULSE2 During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on the future of newspapers, James Moroney, CEO of the Dallas Morning News, said that Amazon demands 70% of subscription revenue from news papers. Here is his comment: “The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News-and we’ve negotiated this up to the last two weeks-they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers?” Source> [...] [...] Heard: Amazon Demands 70 Percent of Kindle Newspaper Revenues PULSE2 During a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on the future of newspapers, James Moroney, CEO of the Dallas Morning News, said that Amazon demands 70% of subscription revenue from news papers. Here is his comment: “The Kindle, which I think is a marvelous device, the best deal Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News-and we’ve negotiated this up to the last two weeks-they want 70 percent of the subscriptions revenue. I get 30 percent, they get 70 percent. On top of that they have said we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable device. Now is that a business model that is going to work for newspapers?” Source> [...]

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