Tag: Jeff Bezos
Kindle Fire HD Sold At Cost – Jeff Bezos
People have generally assumed that Amazon was subsidizing the Kindle Fire to some degree. Analysts have estimated that the cost of materials and manufacturing was roughly equal to the asking…
Kindle Price Drop… again!!!
In June Amazon dropped the price on Kindle 2 by $60.00 only 4 month after it was originally released. Today, 4 month later, Kindle 2 price dropped by another $40.00.…
Kindle Photo of the Day #33: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Jeff spent his hour reading a manuscript on an Amazon Kindle. Photo by video services If you have an image that…
Kindle on the rampage, book sales double since May hitting 12%
Rampage is literally the word to use in this instance. A Time magazine article last week said; “on a title-by-title basis, of the 130,000 titles available on Kindle and in…
A very boring BookExpo ends, Amazon missed an opportunity
BookExpo, the US industry largest annual trade exhibition ended last month in Los Angeles without a clear strategy to revive the industry. The book industry which is going through troubling…
Jeff Bezos invests in Twitter
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos has taken a personal stake in microblogging service Twitter. Bezos made the investment through Bezos Expeditions – his personal investment vehicle. From the Twitter blog: We’re…
Business Like Bezos: Portfolio.com interviews Amazon founder Jeff Bezos about the Kindle
Portfolio contributing editor Kevin Maney interviewed Jeff Bezos in a packed auditorium at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Bazos and Maney discussed many topics during the lengthy 1…
Jeff Bezos interview at the “D: All Things Digital Conference”
Our old friend Walt Mossberg sat down with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos this morning at the “D: All Things Digital Conference”. Walt Mossberg gave the Kindle a luke-warm reception back…