[clue-talk] Kindle 2

[Steve Parkhurst]

I have never seen an advertisement on anything I have ever read on a kindle.

Steve P.
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  From: clue-talk-bounces at cluedenver.org
[mailto:clue-talk-bounces at cluedenver.org]On Behalf Of Nate Duehr
  Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:11 PM
  To: 'CLUE talk'
  Subject: RE: [clue-talk] Kindle 2


  Hey, a question came to mind.



  Do you have to read the NYT's advertisements on the Kindle?  That seems
CRITICAL to the analysis, and they didn't include that in the article.



  Costs mean NOTHING without knowing what they're bringing in in
subscriptions and advertising revenue. (Or in the case of newspapers these
days, how much money they're losing on slack ad revenue numbers, perhaps.)
Gotta look at the whole balance sheet.


  These guys pulled a little "sleight of financial hand" on this one,
methinks.



  If the ad revenue is "lost" on the Kindle platform -- take however many
subscribers they have, and whatever their server farm for the Kindle readers
costs them to operate -- and you'll have the "real" price of what a
subscription *should* be.



  Paper with solid ad revenue in a format where it's a little more easily
ignored but still "there" might be a heck of a lot cheaper than no ad
revenue and the convenience of carrying around a device with it loaded up
anytime you want to read it.



  Nate



  From: clue-talk-bounces at cluedenver.org
[mailto:clue-talk-bounces at cluedenver.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gibson
  Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:26 PM
  To: CLUE talk
  Subject: Re: [clue-talk] Kindle 2



  The carbon footprint reminded me of the financial overhead when it comes
to printing:


http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/printing-the-nyt-costs-twice-as-much-a
s-sending-every-subscriber-a-free-kindle

  Note that the costs quoted in the article are underestimated.  So actual
savings would be higher.




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  From: Steve Parkhurst <psparky at comcast.net>
  To: CLUE talk <clue-talk at cluedenver.org>
  Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 5:21:56 PM
  Subject: RE: [clue-talk] Kindle 2



  I do most of my reading with the Kindle; books, magazines, occasionally
newspapers. Mostly I read just released non-fiction books along the lines of
global warming, green revolution, etc. I read someplace, and I can't
remember where, that the second or third best way to reduce our carbon
footprint is to read digital books, newspapers, magazines, etc. It is a
highly petroleum intensive industry to say nothing about the loss of
atmosphere cleansing trees.






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