Yesterday , onmy Twitter account , I made the snide remark that theKindle DXwas saving newspapers through a $ 500 donation to Amazon . Apparently , my cynicism was n’t that far off the mark . UPDATE
https://gizmodo.com/kindle-dx-offers-9-7-inches-of-e-ink-for-489-5242310
harmonize to James Moroney , President and CEO of theDallas Morning News , Amazon exact a derisory cut of newsprint sales for dispersion on the Kindle . From his talk with the Senate :
The Kindle , which I conceive is a marvelous gimmick , the good pile Amazon will give the Dallas Morning News - and we ’ve negotiated this up to the last two weeks - they want 70 pct of the subscription revenue . I get 30 percent , they get 70 pct . On top of that they have say we get the right to republish your intellectual property to any portable twist . Now is that a business concern model that is run to make for newspaper ?
You ’d think that Amazon would be smarter , assume a pool cue from Apple ’s iTunes and just skimming enough off the top of subscriptions to sell more Kindle computer hardware . But then again , Amazon is in a cunning position . They ’re a retail merchant at nub , not a hardware manufacturer . And they ’re attempting to make money on both sides of the photographic print business .
Surely , the NYT did n’t agree to such a one - side Kindle statistical distribution model . But Amazon seems ready to milk low paper like the Dallas Morning News for all they ’re deserving … which I ’m doubting is very much to begin with . [ paidContentviaCrunchGearandImage ]
UPDATE : Maybe the NYT does n’t have a better trade than the Dallas Morning News . consort to a reliable source in the know , The New Yorker ’s Kindle split is divide 33 % New Yorker , 33 % Amazon , and 33 % wireless carrier . Without ad subsidy , it ’s difficult to view this model as sustainable .
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