It's interesting to see the parallels between Amazon's and Google's strategies: they both started as focused web services companies (ecommerce and searching respectively) and both branched into devices to help their services grow. The Kindle is for Amazon is what Android is for Google. I can't wait to see these strategies unfold more.

I just hope that the success of Apple, Amazon, Google and maybe Palm-in-the-future will teach executives in other companies to build up bigger and better software research.

This is fantastic, except Canadian authors/publishers are left out once again. I'm amazed by how many times Canadian customers' money is left on the table.

The revenue sharing is quite surprising to me: "As publisher, you will receive 35% of the list price when someone buys your content from the Kindle Store."

http://forums.digitaltextplatform.com/dtpforums/entry.jspa?e...

Probably they need to cover wireless download expenses?

The list price, not the sale price. They can discount it 30% and still get half.

Why would you want to do this? Valve, recently, discounted a game by 50% and got a 30x increase in sales.

If that's true, why would any publisher not discount their work by 30%? Does Amazon control the discounts?

Only 35% rev share for the publisher seems extremely low to me.