Friday, December 19, 2014

Bezos: Kindle eBook piracy thanks to a non-issue – lesen.net

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In a rare interview has Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos raised to the status quo of the eBook. In his view, the book industry is experiencing a golden age, what Amazon has a significant share. Amazon is also responsible for ensuring that it hardly admit piracy – a daring twofold thesis

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In an interview with Henry Blodget of the journal Business Insider (where Bezos is old private beteilgit ) gave the Amazon CEO deep and unusual insights into both the history of his company and in his private life. The reader learns that just 50 years old become Bezos, whose personal fortune is estimated at 28 billion US dollars, every night does the dishes his family of six.

Also flopped Fire Phone was subject. As a few weeks ago at a conference underlined Bezos also in the interview, the smartphone is one of the many costly betting the company in which you will have staying power. Whether the experiment succeeds, you will be able to evaluate in a few years.



“Golden times for book industry”

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos

Among the allegations, Amazon was the gravedigger of book culture, has Bezos a clear opinion. Quote: “.. Publishers are currently unique profitable, and the book industry is doing better than ever before,” The principal reason for this is Amazon with its Kindle platform

With the Kindle you have an early opportunity a reader that distraction free read long texts allows. The intended Amazon lower eBook prices are necessary to keep eBooks in competition with Apps competitive – lower prices for Authors would not less but more Profitablität mean here. And thanks to the Kindle, there is very little piraterierte eBooks, especially in comparison to other forms of media

the spirits are divided on this point, and that in two respects.. Although negate some (technical) publishers like Springer SPM and how O’Reilly and authors like Paulo Coelho revenue losses due to piracy or talk to her even a positive (marketing) effect to. From other side, but a great economic loss by sharing and Webwarez offers will be accepted. In the past, this assessment also quite the pirates themselves contributed to brag with huge monthly download numbers.



Forced DRM from Amazon reader drives in illegality

Also, you can Amazon make quite the accusation, to have a certain complicity in the existing piracy. As is known, Amazon on its own file format, together with its own copy, which is itself gestüpt about publishing titles that are delivered free of copy protection (such as from Bastion Luebbe, Hanser, HoCo). And who likes browse only available at Amazon exclusive titles, such as indie authors or publishers of the Amazon on a Tolino vision or other third reader has to only two options, both of which are illegal. He can buy the eBook on Amazon and remove the copy – or download it right now on a pirate page

Jeff Bezos stresses in an interview with Business Insider his vision, any book in any language within 60 seconds on the Kindle. to make available. That this eBook only on the Kindle is then read, may fittingly be (subsidized hardware, closed ecosystem), from an economic point of view. Top fighters of Internet underworld but it will be so not

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The article “Bezos: Kindle eBook piracy thanks to a non-issue” was on December 19, 2014 (Friday) at 11:01 Clock written by John Main. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is editor and publisher of lesen.net

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