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What If Amazon Could Care Less About the Apple Tablet

By Kit | Published: January 21, 2010
The last two days, Amazon has made a couple of announcements regarding the Kindle. The first is that they have raised the royalty that will be received by publishers to 70% and the second is that they will be making an SDK available. The spin on the street is that they are doing so because [...]
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NYT Article on Text Books

By Kit | Published: September 15, 2008
Further to my post on a posited Amazon Kindle foray into text books, the New York Times has an article on electronic versions of text books and some of the dilemmas that current models present. I mentioned in my post that the individual consumer doesn’t get to select which book is used. The Times points [...]
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The Academic eBook Reader

By Kit | Published: August 26, 2008
Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. For a [...]
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Fidelity in Translation

By Kit | Published: June 30, 2008
Kevin Kelly recently posted an explanation of how science works in the absence of theory and being strictly driven by the mass amounts of data that are able to be culled via the large computing ecosystems that currently exist. When talking about massive amounts of data collected from a broad expanse of human beings it [...]
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    This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.